2011 in Yemen

The following lists events that happened during 2011 in Yemen.

Incumbents

 * President: Ali Abdullah Saleh
 * Vice President: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
 * Prime Minister: Ali Muhammad Mujawar (until 10 December) Mohammed Basindawa (starting 10 December)

January

 * January 3 - Two boats capsize off the southern coast of Yemen with a total of 80 people missing. Only three have been found alive.
 * January 11 - Hillary Clinton visited and stated that the protestant of Al-Qaida are a urgent problem.
 * January 14 - At least 10 people arrested in clashes between police and protesters.
 * January 24 - Yemen frees a female activist accused of inciting disorder after protests demanding her release.
 * January 27 - Tens of thousands of people protest in Sanaa calling for an end to the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
 * January 29 - Clashes take place outside the Egyptian embassy between supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's government and opposition supporters expressing sympathy with the situation in Egypt.

February

 * February 2 - President Ali Abdullah Saleh backtracks on his plan to rule Yemen for life and to then allow his son to inherit his rule during an emergency session of parliament ahead of tomorrow's "day of rage" against his three-decade rule.

October

 * October 10 - Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize, and became the first Arab woman, the youngest person at that time to have become a Nobel Peace Laureate and the category's second Muslim woman.

Deaths

 * September 30 - Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni lecturer and jihadist (b. 1971)
 * October 14 - Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, teenage son of Anwar al-Awlaki (b. 1995)