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Title: Food riots rock Yemen
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URL Source: http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=148&a=5876
Published: Apr 4, 2008
Author: By Bill Weinberg
Post Date: 2008-04-04 20:53:33 by DeaconBenjamin
Keywords: None
Views: 481
Comments: 17

Tanks have been deployed in parts of southern Yemen after a fifth day of angry protests by thousands of mostly young people. Youth are blocking roads and burning tires, and up to 100 have been arrested. In al-Dalea, two police station were torched, and military vehicles burned, while riot police fired into the air and used tanks against street barricades. In response, armed protesters threw up roadblocks on the main road between the capital, Sanaa, and the port of Aden, halting traffic.

The unrest started in the Radfan region of al-Dalea province March 30 and spread the next day to the province of Lahj. President Ali Abdullah Saleh called an emergency meeting of the National Defense Council on April 3. Al-Dalea residents report that one of at least 14 people wounded had died. The official Saba news agency said April 2 there were no fatalities.

Rising food prices helped trigger the protests. The price of wheat has doubled since February, while rice and vegetable oil have gone up 20%. Disaffection in southern Yemen has been long-standing following the civil war of 1994, in which the south lost its independence. Southerners say a government amnesty granting former southern soldiers re-admission to the army has not been fulfilled, and that they are kept out of government jobs

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Argentina crisis deepens over farm protests

By Jude Webber in Buenos Aires Monday Mar 31 2008

Snip: "Talks between Argentine farmers and the government to end a 20-day protest that has paralysed food supplies and sparked the worst political crisis in five years remained deadlocked on Monday ahead of the announcement of a package of measures for small producers.

The government - which has refused to negotiate with farm leaders unless their roadblocks are lifted completely - was expected to unveil subsidies and other compensation for small producers worth about $475m (€300m, £238m) to offset the impact of a new sliding scale of export tariffs on key crops such as soy, which they say unfairly penalises them."

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Worldwide Homi-cide ... (these aren't the actual words ... but who cares ?

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