Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Sa’dah in Arabic

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I know we have a number of readers in Yemen, which ranks just behind the UK and the US in readership, and soundly trounces Norway in fourth place, and so I thought I would link to the Arabic translation of the ICG’s recent report on Sa’dah, which just came out.

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