Yemen's opposition agrees to Gulf transition plan

By REUTERS

SANAA, Apr 26, 2011- Yemen's opposition has agreed to take part in a transitional government under a Gulf-negotiated peace plan for veteran leader Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside, an opposition source told Reuters on Monday.

Yemen's Western and Gulf Arab allies have tried to mediate a solution to a three-month crisis in which protesters, inspired by revolts against autocratic rule in Egypt and Tunisia, have demonstrated relentlessly for the end of Saleh's rule.

As opposition leaders met in Sana'a to discuss the plan, Yemeni forces killed three protesters at separate rallies outside the capital, witnesses said.