UN Report: Yemen’s Saleh Took Billions

Recent revelations by a United Nations panel that former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh allegedly took as much as $60 billion through corruption during his many years in power has left analysts wondering how that is possible. Torn by political and social unrest, Yemen is so poor that the purported corruption total dwarfs the country’s 2013 Gross National Income of $36 billion. “The charge that he may have gobbled up as much as $60 billion from the sparse taking of the Yemeni...

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