Saudi Arabia, has tried to keep tabs on the quickly splitting Yemen, but has on a number of occasions got a bloodied nose from confrontations, They have now withdrawn their locally backed leader president Ali Saleh from the area, this leaves the possibility of a Yemen in the future breaking into tribal provinces:
though Saleh's own authority often did not extend far outside of Sana. Yet in the absence of political reform and reconciliation, an apocalyptic scenario could emerge under which Yemen collapses into four parts: Sana and its immediate environs; a Houthi-controlled pocket in the northwestern mountains; the former South Yemen around the port city of Aden; and an al-Qaeda region in the center, perhaps with access to the coast linking it to the already-failed state of Somalia.it should also be noted that the Yemen is in the middle of a catastrophic drought, their water aquifers are quickly running dry, there is little for people to drink and even less for agriculture, so again expect to see a mass exodus from the area, which will compound the other countries in the area. All the unrest and likelihood of a failed state will lead to the need for greater international presence in the area, as the Bab al-Mandab Strait between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean will become an increasingly dangerous place to ply trade through. It is where Europe gets their oil from and trade from te far east too, so all have an interest in a stable Yemen, not just Saudi. Iran on the Other hand have been pushing for greater instability and influence in the area, but that will come to naught as the area splits into tribal regions diminishing any possible returns from its investments.
So all in all the future of Yemen is bleak and has little positives for its population, which is growing at one of the quickest rates of any place in the world, all unsustainable.
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