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“The World Bank predicts that Yemen’s oil and gas revenues will plummet during 2009 and 2010, and fall to zero by 2017 as supplies run out.
In 2008 the UK’s Royal Institute for International Affairs warned that economic collapse in Yemen could threaten stability throughout the region from northeast Africa to Saudi Arabia and, citing armed conflicts with Islamists and tribal insurgents, described Yemen’s democracy as “fragile”. These concerns have prompted the desires of leaders and diplomats from the West and elsewhere to preserve Yemen’s economic stability.
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I knew oil wasn’t going to last forever;
But seriously, 2017 is less than a decade away.
In other news there is an under-reported civil war in Yemen.
