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Abu Bakr al-Qirbi - Foreign Minister, Yemen
Stephen Sackur talks to Yemen's veteran foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi about the country's humanitarian, economic, and security disasters as its military takes on Al Qaeda.
Stephen Sackur talks to Yemen's veteran foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi about the country's humanitarian, economic, and security disasters that makes few headlines in the outside world and are described as 'the Arab world's slow-motion car crash'.
The Yemeni government is supposed to be in the middle of a major programme of political and economic reform, but right now its focus appears to be a major military assault on local Al Qaeda strongholds. If Yemen is a failing state, who is to blame?
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Fri 2 May 2014
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