Yemenis Hope Vote Will Usher in Better Future
Vote counting is under way in Yemen, a day after a presidential election that was expected to confirm Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the current vice-president, as the country's new leader. Electoral officials said on Wednesday that voter turnout reached 60 per cent nationwide, despite threats of violence and boycott calls in some parts of the Arabian peninsula nation. Hadi, the 66-year-old former deputy to Yemen's long-time leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, was the lone candidate in the elections as part a US-backed one-candidate election. Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Sanaa, Yemen's capital.