Yemenis

FOR nearly a week thousands of Yemenis have been gathering in Sana'a, their capital, and in several other cities around the country.

Young Yemenis have been camping out in the country's capital, demanding democratic change for a month.

Younger Yemenis have been campaigning out in the country's capital, demanding democratic change for months.

Some Yemenis grumble that Mr Saleh has exaggerated the threat from al-Qaeda to extract more military aid out of the Americans.

What unites Yemenis now is a determination to see him go.

The Airbus 310 plane was carrying 142 passengers, including at least three babies, and a crew of 11 Yemenis.

Many Yemenis still respect Mr Saleh for holding the country together for so long, by juggling and paying off its myriad tribes.

The President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh has insisted that the majority of Yemenis still support him.

But numbers swelled, eventually drawing in more than a thousand Yemenis in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The great majority of the 800 prisoners listed in recently published detainee assessments were Yemenis.

Libyans just joined Tunisians, Egyptians and Yemenis in ousting their dictator, while Syrians and Iranians hope to soon follow suit.

Yemenis are using cartoons and art, paintings, comics, to tell the world and each other about what's going on.

Yemenis rarely protest publicly against their own miserable circumstances at home.

Ordinary Yemenis, who previously had feared arrest for protesting, now find safety in numbers.

Poverty can help breed extremism -- al-Qaida is a growing concern for the Yemenis.

Yet, as in a family feud, Yemenis struggle to explain what started the Houthis' quarrel with the government.

They are a mixed bunch: Egyptians, Moroccans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Yemenis and Lebanese, and some from the rich Gulf states.

Moreover, only a third of Yemenis live in towns; few have access to the internet or own mobile telephones.

An estimated million Yemenis were expelled from Saudi Arabia in the wake of Desert Storm.

In the evenings young Yemenis take to the streets, burning tyres and throwing rocks.

Most Saudis are a lot better off than most Egyptians, Syrians or Yemenis.

Such reasoning comforts Yemenis, many of whom prefer to blame their troubles on regional power games.

Now more than half of Yemenis chew it daily. This has bad effects.

The JMP leaders, by contrast, are nervy about an abrupt shift, wary that Yemenis are perhaps the most heavily armed people in the world.

Yemenis rapidly became the world's biggest importers of rhino horn.

Some 40% of Yemenis live on less than $2 a day.

"Soldiers, you should know we do not want to fight you, " the Qaeda operative, standing amid angry Yemenis, declared.

Cash-for-work program employs more than 41, 000 Yemenis in areas hard hit by high food prices.