Yemen: In Search of Lost Legitimacy

... list of the problems the Republic of Yemen experiences today. The Kuwait Dead End On April 21, 2016, under the auspices of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed , the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, peace talks were opened between the representatives of Yemen’s National Delegation (comprising members of Ansar Allah and the General People’s Congress, GPC) and the Riyadh Group, which is essentially a government in exile controlled by Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. However, after three-and-a-half months of negotiations, the parties failed to work out a solution for the settlement of the Yemeni crisis. The Kuwait talks failed largely due to existential reasons: both parties live in parallel worlds, ...