
EI Weekly Listen — Making sense of the Yemen War by Elisabeth Kendall
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The Civil War Between the Northern and Southern Armies
The 19 94 civil war between the pro union northern armies and the socialist, separatist south ended with a victor'sp for the north. Although it lasted only two months, the fall out still resonates to day. The secessionists quickly attracted broad support among a population riddled with grievances that it blamed on the north. These same grievances boiled up again in august 20, 19 as newly recruited southern forces came to blows with emane government forces backed by soudy arabia. Thus this persistent historical fault line is now pitting soudi arabia against u a e, and distracting both from the war against the uranbak hotes jeman's arab spring
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