Two people were killed and 10 wounded in clashes between Yemeni police and demonstrators protesting rising prices, opposition sources said on Sunday. A provincial government source said one man was killed and several were wounded late on Saturday as the police tried to enforce a government ban on unauthorized protests announced on Friday. The move came after opposition parties staged several protests in recent weeks to demand state measures to curb rising prices of consumer goods.
Government officials say the rise is due to a spike in the prices of commodities such as wheat in global markets.
The government has ordered state bodies to import such goods and provide them to citizens at fair prices and ensure that they are not monopolized by local merchants.
Four out of 10 Yemenis live on less than $2 a day, according to Britan's Department for International Development, which says Yemen's oil, its main earnings source, is expected to dry up by 2015. Yemen's oil production dropped to around 300,000 barrels per day from around 380,000 bpd at the beginning of the year.
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On Saturday, thousands of retired officers and soldiers in southern Yemen demonstrated to be allowed back into the military. Hundreds of riot police fired bullets and tear gas Saturday to disperse the crowds.
The demonstration, which was the second of its kind in the past month, underlined increasing tensions between southern and northern Yemen 13 years after their civil war. The protesters were largely members of the former army of south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by northern forces. - Agencies
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