YEMEN: Sheikhs and shekels - the real cost of patronage

YEMEN: Sheikhs and shekels - the real cost of patronage:

SANA'A, 12 October 2012 (IRIN) - Sheikh Nasser Shareef grimaced as he described the state of public services in his tribal area in Marib Governorate, about 100km east of Yemen's capital Sana'a. “Very bad. We don't even have a police station. And hospitals and schools are empty. There's no one and nothing inside them, no services,” he told IRIN.