Keen to follow through on its promises toward the Southern Movement and prevent yet another break down in communication, the coalition government has been pushing toward the concretization of some very contentious issues, namely job loss indemnities as well as retirement benefits and thus authorized the creation of a compensation fund, worth a reported $1.2 billion.
Foreign diplomats have said that a separate fund will be set up to handle all cases of land mis-appropriations.
Yemen Minister of International Cooperation, Mohammed al-Saadi confirmed that the coalition had agree in the spirit of national reconciliation and political good will to meet southern leaders' demands and begin the much awaited compensation process.
While any form of payment will in all likelihood take some time given the magnitude of the world ahead, officials have told the press that it was this particular concession which had convinced southern leaders to break their lobbying of the NDC (National Dialogue Conference).
Minister al-Saadi told reporters that Qatar, which has been a staunch supporter of Yemen throughout the whole power-transition process, will contribute $350 million to the fund, which money will come in addition to other grants and financial aids it already has pledged toward Yemen's recovery.
It is important to note that so far Qatar has neither concurred nor denied such pledge.
Yemen President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi has asked the international community to foot the remaining $850 million necessary to finance Yemen southern recovery fund and close the chapter on over a decade of recriminations and political frustrations.
As one chapter of Yemen's difficult history closes, another seems to have come out of the woodwork, threatening to divide the country along sectarian lines, as the Houthis and Islahi militants harden their stance in the northern province of Amran