Yemen: Federalization as an Alternative to War

... Democratic Republic of Yemen. That confrontation resulted in the short-lived South Yemen Civil War in 1986 and the massacre of Aden, where natives of the Abyan Governorate... ... “northern” Marib Governorate, as it hopes to receive dividends from the transit of oil and gas. The Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah governorates are taking a “wait-and-see”... ... additional pressure on their main adversary, Saudi Arabia. On September 14, with the help of drones and missiles, they delivered a strike against two large oil processing facilities...