About the Latest Yemenews...

To add a note about how the recent violence has affected the capital, there haven't been big, overt signs of imminent danger. The soldiers sitting guard in their little booths along the street still seem languid and their cheeks are, as always, full of qat. The government still allows the Ajnabi (foreigners) outside the city and around the same sections of the country they always have.
But that aside, the reserves have been steadily called up; one of our guards was recently called back to duty. The sound of jets taking of from Sana'a International (yes, the commercial airport is also the capital's only air force base - the MiGs use the same runway as the Airbuses) has definitely increased. The latest truce with the Houthis (the 6th, I want to say) looks like it will dissolve and lead to the seventh war against the northern rebels. The southern secessionists are growing loud and, in the case of the government's resumption of hostilities with the rebels it's possible that they'd do their best to stage the biggest uprising of which they're capable, which could be large or small, no one knows (North and South Yemen were united in 1990, then separated in 1994, and after a short civil war rejoined that same year). Al-Qa'eda is also playing an active role, with several recent attacks on curiously unguarded government facilities (in a country with over 3 guns per person, how is it possible to have a police station with no armed guards?).

Yemen's never boring.