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Yemen is currently suffering from a serious situation threatening the state of collapse or partition. However, this is not very different in terms of nature or extent from wellknown past events. The history of the region – presently called the Republic of Yemen – is loaded with waves of violence and instability. Over the last 50 years, that has been recurrent in the form of revolts, coups, civil wars and similar examples of instability. The main objective reasons for that are scarce resources, hard topographic relief and weak inclusive political identity resulting from a long history of division. A false democratic order was adopted until 2011, when it broke up due to conflicts between its wings as well as the public protests demanding its departure. Nevertheless, the country was afflicted then by the exaggerated desires of ‘dreamers’ and ‘greedy’ people in the transitional stage. Seriously enough, the greedy among these used the Houthi movement as a tool to destroy some of the above powers. President Hadi, for instance, who aspired to rule as long as possible, held implicit – and perhaps actual – accords with the Houthis. Consequently, their expansion was disregarded until they took over Sana’a on September 21, 2014.
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