Sana'a: Professors of the University of Sana'a said on Sunday that they have gone on strike to press the Yemeni government into bringing educational reforms and increasing their wages.
"The strikers will continue the walkout until their demands are realised," said Abdullah Al Azazi, the president of the professors' union at the university.
Azazi also said colleagues from Amran in the country's north had also joined in the strike action which began Saturday.
Administrative and technical employees of Yemeni universities organised a sit-in in front of parliament in Sana;a on Sunday, demanding they be legally recognised as state workers.
Azazi said the strike could expand to other universities, including the one in Aden in the south, if negotiations with the government fail.
He said a meeting was scheduled for Sunday between the union and the Council for Higher Education, chaired by Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar, to try to reach a solution.
Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, faces economic and social difficulties, a secessionist movement in the south and the aftermath of six months of fighting between the army and Shiite rebels in the north.
