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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/police-try-to-quell-yemen-protests.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Anti-government protesters take to the streets in Sanaa, Yemen (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-police-try-to-quell-yemen-protests.jpg" alt="Anti-government protesters take to the streets in Sanaa, Yemen (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Police have flooded the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in an attempt to end days of protests against the president of 32 years, a key Western ally in battling al Qaida.</p>
<p>The officers fired in the air and blocked students at Sanaa University from joining thousands of other protesters who were holding a sixth straight day of demonstrations.</p>
<p>Taking inspiration from the toppling of leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, Yemen&#8217;s protesters are demanding political reforms and the removal of president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Their central complaints are poverty, unemployment and corruption.</p>
<p>Yemen is a conflict-ridden and impoverished nation. Its president has become a crucial partner in battling al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror network&#8217;s offshoot in Yemen.</p>
<p>The group&#8217;s several hundred fighters have battled Mr Saleh&#8217;s US-backed forces and have been linked to attacks beyond Yemen&#8217;s borders, including the failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner in December 2009.</p>
<p>The US military plans a 75 million dollar (£46.7m) training programme with Yemen&#8217;s counter-terrorism unit to expand its size and capabilities in the nation&#8217;s difficult mountain terrain. It is a difficult balancing act for Mr Saleh, who has been criticised as being too close to the US</p>
<p>Now facing unprecedented street demonstrations, he has tried to defuse protesters&#8217; anger by saying he will not run for another term in elections in 2013 and that he will not seek to set up his son to succeed him.</p>
<p>However protesters chanted slogans against the president&#8217;s son, Ahmed.</p>
<p>Police chained the university&#8217;s iron gates shut to prevent students from pouring into adjacent streets. At least four protesters were wounded in scuffles.</p>
<p>Demonstrations are also taking place in the port city of Aden and in Taaz, where thousands of protesters shouted, &#8220;Down &#8230; down with Ali Abdullah Saleh.&#8221;</p>
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