Saturday
Jun042011
Yemen, Syria, Bahrain (and Beyond) LiveBlog: A President Is Wounded
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 18:25 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
Video of the destroyed Presidential Mosque in the Yemeni capital Sana'a
2130 GMT: Media are reporting tonight that the Vice President, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, is now acting President and Supreme Commander of the armed forces.
Meanwhile, Abdel Rahman Ba Fadel, an opposition member of the Yemeni parliament, has told Al Jazeera, "A medical team arrived from Saudi Arabia but there is a plane ready to take him [President Saleh] there if they fail to treat him in Yemen."