The World's Next Failed State?

In a world that is all to familiar to genecide, war, and ressecion, one thing that it does not need to see is another state that might possibly fall apart. But that is exctatly what might happen in Yemen. Fighting between Yemen's army and tribesmen, loyal to the Houthi family, has need going on in the northeatern part of Yemen since August. The UN says that 50,000 people have fled the fighting, which only adds to the 150,000 that have fled pervious rounds of fighting. The fighting is mainly caused by algations of corruption agaisnt Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. As if this doesn't seem like enough for Yemen's government to handle there is also trouble brewing in other parts of the country as well. There is growing unrest in the once separate southern parts of the country, and meancing signs of an al-Qaeda resurgance. If Yemen can't deal with these issues then it, just like Somilia, might become another failed state and just one more problem for the international community to deal with. By: William Miller