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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/yemen-protesters-refuse-to-quit.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh has rejected protesters' demands that he leave office now" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-yemen-protesters-refuse-to-quit.jpg" alt="Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh has rejected protesters' demands that he leave office now"/></a></p>
<p>Anti-government protests have flared again in Yemen with thousands of marchers demonstrating across the country.</p>
<p>Their target, president Ali Abdullah Saleh, has said he will step down after national elections are held in 2013. But he has rejected protesters&#8217; demands that he leave office now.</p>
<p>Mr Saleh said he has ordered troops not to fire at anti-government protesters, except in self defence, although medical officials say at least 11 people have been killed in demonstrations.</p>
<p>Protesters set fire to a car in the capital Sanaa as thousands rallied at a university campus while hundreds continued to camp out in a nearby square, just the way marchers in Cairo did during the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak and as demonstrators in Bahrain are now.</p>
<p>On Tuesday protesters in Yemen set up checkpoints around the capital square and searched those trying to enter.</p>
<p>In Taiz, Yemen&#8217;s second-largest city, thousands marched in the Safir square. Activist Ahmed Ghilan said hundreds have been camping in the square for more than a week. They have renamed it &#8220;Freedom Square&#8221;.</p>
<p>In the port city of Aden, schools closed, most government employees were not working and many shops were closed as hundreds gathered for another round of protests.</p>
<p>An opposition spokesman has rebuffed Mr Saleh&#8217;s offer of dialogue and an influential group of Muslim clerics has called for a national unity government that would lead the country to elections. Saleh has been in power for 32 years.</p>
<p>Mr Saleh&#8217;s government was already weak before the protests, facing a southern separatist movement and disaffected tribesmen around the country.</p>
<p>He has been quietly co-operating with the US in efforts to battle an al Qaida branch that has taken root in Yemen, but his government exercises limited control in the tribal areas beyond the capital.</p>
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