Activists paint graffiti on a wall ahead of an anti-government rally in Sanaa February 10, 2012. The writing reads “Yemen” and “My heartbeats remain Yemeni.” Weakened by months of protests against Saleh’s rule, the Yemeni government has lost control of whole chunks of the country, giving southern separatists, northern Shi’ite rebels and Islamist militants a window to further their goals.

Khaled Abdullah