Yemenis head to the polls in an uncontested presidential election, part of a negotiated end to the decades-long rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Election Marks Start of Yemen's Transition
Voters scan the lists at a polling station in Sana'a, Yemen, February 21, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)
Yemeni voters can check their approval for the sole candidate in the presidential election. Sana'a (VOA - E. Arrott)
Women voters out in force in Sana'a, February 21, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)
Abed Rabbo Manousr Hadi is the only candidate running in the election. (VOA - E. Arrott)
Security is stepped up in Sana'a, February 21, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)
A man in Sana'a's protest encampment prays on the eve of Yemen's presidential election, February 20, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)
Residents of the protest camp vow to stay on until real change ensues, February 20, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)
Sana'a's Change Square, where protesters have been pushing for a new government for a year, February 20, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)
On Sana'a's Change Square, hope for the future. (VOA - E. Arrott)
Women played an unusally large role in the uprising leading to Yemen's elections - In Sana'a, February 20, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)
The qat market in Old Sana'a was bustling. (VOA - E. Arrott)
One year after the Arab Spring hit Yemen, youths on both sides are hopeful - In Sana'a, February 19, 2012. (VOA - E. Arrott)