This coin is issued to commemorate the Cypriot poet Dimitris Lipertis on the 150th anniversary of his birth. It is the second collector coin of the series of Cyprus collector coins dedicated to highly accomplished Cypriot poets. Dimitris Lipertis has been recognised as one of the most distinguished idiomatic (vernacular) Cypriot poets. Through his poetry, he depicted the spirit, manners and customs of the people of Cyprus, joy and sorrow, love and death. The coin, which depicts a portrait of the poet, has been designed by George Stamatopoulos.
âItâs a Slow Deathâ: The Worldâs Worst Humanitarian Crisis. SANA, Yemen â After two and a half years of war, little is functioning in Yemen. Repeated bombings have crippled bridges, hospitals and factories. Many doctors and civil servants have gone unpaid for more than a year.
The series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa that commenced in 2010 became known as the Arab Spring, and sometimes as the Arab Spring and Winter, Arab Awakening or Arab Uprisings even though not all the participants in the protests were Arab.or example, Yemen was seen as a success story of the Arab Spring but the new government was destabilised by the Houthis, a Shia rebel group, which threaten the fragile new regime. In spring 2015 the conflict in Yemen has escalated following the suicide bombings in Yemeni capital Sana'a.