Yemen appoints first woman as Foreign Minister

First, I must apologize to all my Northern Yemeni brothers for an article I wrote several years ago in the Kuwaiti newspaper “Al-Watan,” during the height of the rift between North and South Yemen. In that piece, I described the North as a backward state, while portraying the South as an active, educated, and open people. I regret my role in fueling this North-South conflict. …