A country in the Arabian Peninsula and West Asia whose state name is the Republic of Yemen.
It is currently considered a failed state in political terms. Legally, the system of government here is a constitutional republic ruled by a president, but in practice there is a provincial government. So in practice the legislature is the Supreme Political Council.
Sanaa is the legal capital and largest city but Aden is the provincial capital.
The country is bordered by the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden and the Gardafui Channel to the south.
The language is Arabic and 93% of the nationalities are Arabic.
In the past, southern Yemen was a socialist country and northern Yemen was a one-party Islamic state under a military junta. Both were members of the United Nations, but in 1990 two separate states merged to form the Republic of Yemen. Ali Abdullah Saleh has become the head of state from northern Yemen and Ali Selim has become the head of government from southern Yemen. Ali Abdullah Saleh was overthrown by the Yemeni revolution when the Arab Spring began and was later executed.
Civil war has been raging in the country since 2015. One side is the government controlled by Mansur Hadi and the other side is a member of the Huthi movement.
Mansour Hadi is backed by the Saudi Arabian Alliance in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar. On the other hand, Iran and Hezbollah have been supporting members of the Huthi movement.
Note that the Houthi movement is officially called Ansar Allah. Who have been carrying out Islamic political and armed movements since 1994.
The port city of Aden is a famous seaport located east of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. This system basically connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. On the other hand, it separates Djibouti and Eritrea from Yemen or the Arabian Gulf.
The country has an area of 5.27 lakh square kilometers and a population of 30 million.
The per capita annual income is only ড 900 and the currency is the Yemeni real.
Tawakkul Karman is a human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. She is the first Yemeni and the first Arab woman to win this award.
In 2016, half a million children died of starvation due to the intervention and blockade of the Saudi-led coalition, and the famine continues. The cholera epidemic has exacerbated the famine and affected about one million people.
