Houthis Set Up Protest Camps on Main Sanaa Road
Lesson Brief
Al Masdar
On September 7, Al Masdar reported that armed Houthi activists blocked off a main road in the Yemeni capital Sanaa leading to the airport. The activists, protesting the government's refusal to comply with their demands for reforms, set up make-shift camps outside of the ministries of communications and electricity and forced employees in those buildings to leave.