Leyla Hamad | May 13 2013
On February 6th the starting date of Yemen's National Dialogue Conference was announced. March 18th 2013, a symbolic date if we take into account that it will be the second anniversary of the 'Friday of Dignity' massacre in which 52 demonstrators calling for the downfall of the over three-decades-old Saleh regime were killed.
Leyla Hamad | Oct 06 2012
The detailed roadmap for Yemen's political transition, the Implementation Mechanism of the Gulf Initiative (IMGI) signed 21 November 2011, stipulated that following the presidential elections of February 2012 and the swearing in of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, the sole candidate in those elections, a National Dialogue process would be established bringing together all of the country's political and social forces in order to achieve national reconciliation.
