Yemenis killed 9 in clashes during polling to elect a new president

Killed at least 9 people killed in clashes in Yemen while it was under the voting process to elect a new president to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for 33 years.There have been incidents of violence after a call to boycott launched by separatists in southern Yemen.Have forced the polling stations in the southern city of Aden to close early, but the vote in the capital Sana'a over safely.And the only candidate in that election is the Vice President Ali Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi.The United States of America expressed satisfaction with the voting process in Yemen.President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to relinquish his post after the wisdom of continuing protests for several months.Was granted immunity from prosecution and leave the country to America for treatment.BallotVoters were Yemenis had gone Tuesday to the polls in cities across the country for the election of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi as the new president amid tight security, and moving the voting process that began at eight in the morning local time naturally in the northern governorates, including Sa'ada announced Houthis the boycott of elections .According to the BBC that the southern provinces have seen unrest increased security, the soldier was killed early Tuesday in a bombing targeted a polling district Mualla city of Aden, also spread by gunmen believed to follow a faction Michddedda in the southern movement on the roads to prevent citizens from going to polling stations.Military sources said the BBC's Abdullah crow that officers and soldiers of the government troops were killed in clashes with armed factions follow the militants in the southern movement also led to the injury of three militants of the movement.In Aden, sources said gunmen broke into the thought of belonging to the Southern Movement for a number of polling stations and ballot boxes abduction by force and at gunpoint.Recorded incidents of shooting in the air to intimidate voters in the most southern city of insurgents also cut in the Directorate of Cotton in Hadramout roads leading to polling stations tires and stones.The Yemeni president during the next casting his ballot in Sana'a amid tight security measures, that "the maturity of the election is close to the past and open a new page for the whiter than white are writing the future of the new Yemen."It takes character to vote largely symbolic as it enjoys the support of the majority Hadi political forces in the country, and comes in his election as part of an agreement which gave the initiative GulfWhereby the benefit of power to his deputy, any Hadi return for immunity from prosecution.After years of protests has become invalid, who is currently in the United States for the treatment of the first president in the country of the Arab spring step down from power by the political agreement, and continued to rule after 33 yearsThe Hadi had promised southern separatists and northern rebels that he would work to reform the political system and find a solution to the issues of the south and the rebellion with the escalation of concerns about the boycott of the elections.The donor states pledged at a conference in London in 2006 to provide billions of dollars to Yemen and then reinforced these commitments group "Friends of Yemen", which was formed in early 2010, but the vast majority of this money did not reach the Yemen also freezes the work of Friends of Yemen with the start of the protests against of the system.
Source: BBC Arabic