Southern Clashes Renew
SANAA, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Clashes broke out in south Yemen on Monday between security forces and southern separatists, witnesses said.
They said shelling and gunfire continued for over an hour in the town of Zinjabar in Abyan province around the house of a relative of Tareq al-Fadhli, a leading figure in an opposition grouping called the “Southern Movement”.
It was the first report of violence in the south in over a month after several clashes earlier this year which resulted in deaths. Southerners say they have been marginalised politically and economically since unification in 1990.
