Reporting from Cairo— Yemen's embattled president sacked his Cabinet, state media reported Sunday, as many ministers prepared to abandon him in protest over recent attacks on unarmed protesters by his security forces and supporters.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh's representative to the United Nations, the chief of the state-run television channel, key members of his own tribe and three prominent Cabinet members had already announced their resignations.
"It was suspected that his whole Cabinet would resign," said Murad Azzani, a political analyst at Sana University. "Those opposing his rule are not likely to accept any kind of concessions from him at this late stage."
Few have accepted Saleh's denials that government forces were involved in the bloody attack Friday that killed about 50 people and injured hundreds at a long-running sit-in near Sana University. Tens of thousands of people were gathered there to call for his ouster when the assault took place.
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