Yemen has just announced that it will operate as a Federalist state for the first time in its history. And surprise, surprise, the Southern Yemeni Federalists are still protesting. Yemen has a culture of centre and periphery similar to that in Libya so I wouldn't be surprised at all, if Cyrenaican Federalists would not accept what ever moderate federalism and decentralization that they get in the constitution and seek to gain more through force even after they have already achieved their aims.
Saba said a federal state comprised of six regions garnered the "highest level of agreement" against another proposal to divide the country into two regions, one in the north and one in the south. Southern Yemeni leaders rejected the accord. "What has been announced about the six regions is a coup against what had been agreed at the dialogue," said Mohammed Ali Ahmed, a former South Yemen interior minister who returned from exile in March 2012. "That is why I pulled out of the dialogue," he told Reuters.Some southerners fear that having several regions would dilute their authority and deprive them of control over important areas such as Hadramout, where some of Yemen's oil reserves are found.Nasser al-Nawba, a founder of the southern Hirak separatist movement, also rejected the deal, saying the only solution was for the north and south to each have their own state, as was the case before 1990.