“We are starting a new phase,” Nobel peace laureate Tawakkol Karman recently told crowds at Sana’a’s Change Square, expressing a sentiment that’s come to be shared by leading analysts.

“Maybe the most unique post-revolutionary political process happening in any country …

The Obama administration should ditch its current security-focused approach to Yemen and adopt a long-term strategy that combats the “factors that allow extremist ideology to spread: the absence of basic social services, a worsening food shortage, and chronic unemployment,” according …

If Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference fails, “all Yemenis will lose, not just the ruling elite,” says a leading commentator.

“The real question facing the NDC is: should we be a civil state or an Islamic state?” Dr. Nabil Al-Sarjabi, a …

More than 500 representatives of Yemen’s political parties and civil society today started a UN-backed dialogue for reconciliation with the aim of drafting a fresh constitution and preparing for free and fair elections in February 2014.

But the …

The agreement brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for political transition in Yemen calls for a National Dialogue Conference to help the country’s leaders develop consensus for draft constitutional reforms and prepare for elections in 2014.

During the past …

As Yemen’s key political actors  gear up for the forthcoming dialogue, envisaged as the first step towards a democratic transition, Les Campbell, Middle East director for the National Democratic Institute, finds a surprising degree of consensus. But …

“One year after what was billed as a ‘historic vote’, hopes for the new Yemen that protesters thought they had won are quickly disappearing in the face of a crumbling economy and a worsening political situation,” says a prominent analyst. …

Yemen’s interim President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has chosen March 18 as the date for a national dialogue to accelerate the country’s political transition, Agence France Presse reports:

The conference was delayed after factions in the Southern Movement, …

Yemen’s transition process is on the brink of collapse due to the failure to reform security institutions and disempower former regime elements, a leading activist warned today.

Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh should be excluded from politics, and youth, women …

Two years on from Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, has sectarianism overtaken democracy as the driving force of the region’s popular upsurge?

“Tribal, regional, and sectarian factionalism made political progress in Yemen agonizingly slow, as did tribal …