Hadi replaces top ministers

As protests at the fuel crisis grow (see main story), President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi announced a cabinet reshuffle on 11 June, replacing the ministers of finance, oil and minerals, foreign affairs, electricity, information, and telecommunications and information technology. Republican decree 95/2014 named Mohammed Mansour Zeman as the new minister of finance, replacing Sakhr Ahmed Al-Wajeeh, a major political personality within the Al-Islah party who recently said fuel subsidies would have to be cut as part of a deal with the International Monetary Fund, a highly unpopular reform (GSN 971/12). Al-Wajeeh has