Yemeni President Offered Immunity for Resignation

President Ali Abdullah Saleh could become the third head of state in the Arab world to lose his job this year if he takes the offer.

The president of Yemen has been offered immunity from prosecution if he steps down amid violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and state security forces. The deal, brokered by the foreign ministers of the six countries in the Gulf Co-operation Council, would see President Ali Abdullah Saleh resign within 30 days with some modicum of dignity intact. Yemen has dealt with three months of protests aimed at ousting Saleh from 32 years of power and improving the country's economy, which lags behind the rest of the Arab world and remains one of the least-developed countries on the planet. About 130 protesters have been killed since January.