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At least two people were killed and five were wounded in clashes between soldiers once loyal to Yemen’s ousted president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and a rival army faction in the capital on Friday, the police and medical officials said. Hundreds of members of Yemen’s elite Republican Guard, now dissolved, gathered near the presidential palace in Sana, the capital, to demand that the Finance Ministry pay them a Ramadan bonus. Demonstrations by soldiers protesting late salary payments from the government are common in Yemen, and often end in violence. A third of Yemenis live on less than $2 a day, and unemployment is estimated at about 35 percent, with youth joblessness at 60 percent. Stability in Yemen is a priority for the United States and its Persian Gulf allies, who concerned about Al Qaeda militants operating in a country that adjoins top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and overlooks major global shipping lanes. At least two people were killed and five were wounded in clashes between soldiers once loyal to Yemen’s ousted president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and a rival army faction in the capital on Friday, the police and medical officials said. Hundreds of members of Yemen’s elite Republican Guard, now dissolved, gathered near the presidential palace in Sana, the capital, to demand that the Finance Ministry pay them a Ramadan bonus. Demonstrations by soldiers protesting late salary payments from the government are common in Yemen, and often end in violence. A third of Yemenis live on less than $2 a day, and unemployment is estimated at 35 percent, with youth joblessness at 60 percent. Stability in Yemen is a priority for the United States and its Persian Gulf allies, who are concerned about Al Qaeda militants operating in a country that adjoins top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and overlooks major global shipping lanes.