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Nadia Al-Sakkaf is a Yemeni researcher currently working toward her PhD in politics in the United Kingdom. She was Yemen's first female information minister, and before that worked as chief editor of the Yemen Times. On Twitter: @NadiaSakkaf
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![A poster with an image of a soldier lies on his grave after he was killed by al Qaeda militants in the Wadi Hadramout region in northeastern Yemen, at a military cemetery in Sanaa August 10, 2014. An al Qaeda-affiliated group in Yemen said it killed 14 soldiers in an eastern province as revenge for an army offensive against its members, while a U.S. drone attack killed three suspected militants in central Yemen on Saturday, an official said. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILIT](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/07/RTR41UU7.jpg/RTR41UU7.jpg?h=7cb15be6&itok=36SGnOUa)
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