AH Challenge: Surviving South Yemen

I'll give it a shot, although my knowledge of South Yemeni history consists of your link to the Wikipedia article I read just now.

I think preventing the Nasir-Ismail civil war in 1986 is the most obvious way to go. Say Ismail suffers a convenient accident in 1985, and 1986 passes without incident. Apparently Nasir wasn't big on aggression against North Yemen, so if the two maintain friendly relations maybe there won't be a big push for political unification--although I imagine they'd still become economically integrated after South Yemen loses Soviet aid post-1991. I don't really know if this would be better for either Yemen; maybe there'd be two potentially failed states now instead of one.

Also, didn't they almost split up after unification, in 1994/5 or so?
 
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