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Yemeni regime depends on continued corruption, report says
SANA’A, May 3 — Corruption is the number one problem with the Yemeni political regime, which is dependant upon its continuance in order to support influential groups that benefit from the current situation, according to the Yemeni Human Rights Observatory’s April 2008 annual report, which was discussed last Saturday in Sana’a.

Seeking to evaluate human rights and democracy in Yemen, the report revealed that despite government measures to combat corruption, such as creating the 2006 Anti-Corruption Law and forming the Anti-Corruption Corporation in 2007, there has been no significant improvement in this regard.