Insecurity in Yemen article publishes today
Today, my story on Yemen’s many escalating problems publishes in the World Policy Journal. It’s an intimate look into the barrage of issues that plague the nation that perhaps the biggest imports last year were refugee’s and extremists.
Yemen may not yet be front-page news, but it’s a being watched intensely these days in capitals worldwide. A perfect storm of state failure is now brewing there: disappearing oil and water reserves; a mob of migrants with al Qaeda ties, refugee’s flooding in from Somalia, the, the failed state next door; and a weak government increasingly unable to keep things running. Many worry Yemen is the next Afghanistan; a global problem wrapped in a failed state.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Congratulations, Micah! With the current rebel activities taking place in Yemen and the news coverage it’s bound to generate, you really read the tea leaves well on this one. Nice analysis and photography…this is a very informative piece about a part of the world so few of us know about.