Reports out today that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has accepted an offer to travel to Saudi Arabia to obtain ‘medical care’ for injuries sustained in a recent attack.
If true this could be a face saving way for him to step down from power as heading to another country for ‘medical treatment’ is often code for such a move.
Yemen has been plagued with protestsas part of the Arab Spring movement.
It is unclear at this point who would take over if Saleh did flee but it is debatable as to whether it would result in any sort of democracy. Yemen does hold a strategic point at the southeast end of the Red Sea.
Reports now seem to have been confirmed as he has transfered power to his VP and fled.