[waitingforcorrection: no audio attached, invalid GUID] It has been 2 months since President Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen to receive medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Since then the country has struggled to find stability — with violence continuing and fears that Al Qaeda’s Yemeni offshoot is benefiting from the power vacuum. On Sunday the President released a statement calling for an end to protests to oust him and urging dialogue during the holy month of Ramadan. Raja Althaibani is a Yemeni American journalist and has recently returned from Yemen where she has spent the previous four months reporting on the Arab uprising there.
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