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Four injured in clashes on Yemen campus

Anti-government protesters and supporters of the Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed for a fourth day in Sanaa, with at least four people injured.

Reuters
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The protest, which follows several days of demonstrations inspired by the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings, started at the Sanaa university campus and headed towards Al-Sabiine square near the presidential palace. Knife-wielding and stone-throwing pro-government supporters attacked the demonstrators almost immediately.

Clashes later spread to the rest of campus. Police fired warning shots but were unable to disperse the crowd. Hundreds of pro-government government supporters charged at the protesters who fled quickly.

Inspired by unrest in Tunisia and Egypt, anti-government protesters have staged daily demonstrations this week.

"We'll keep protesting until this regime leaves," Murad Mohammed, a Yemeni university student at the disrupted protest, told Reuters. "We have no future under current conditions."

Two journalists were also beaten by Saleh supporters in the clashes.

The unrest has pushed Saleh, who has ruled Yemen for the past three decades, to promise to step down in 2013 and offer dialogue with the opposition.

Saleh has long received support from the United States and the UK in his fight against Al Qaeda in the south of the country.

US news programme Democracy Now reports that the US is planning to boost its aid to Yemen.

President Barack Obama is reportedly offering Yemen 150 millions euros in aid next year, including over 50 million euros to double the size of a special Yemeni counterterrorism unit.
 

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