SANAA (Reuters) - Political factions in Yemen extended Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's presidency by one more year and approved a new federal system for the country at a national reconciliation conference that ended on Tuesday, officials said.
Hadi, who became head of state in 2012 for a two-year term under a Gulf power transfer deal that saw his predecessor step down, will oversee a transition into a federal system intended to accommodate southern separatist demands for more autonomy.
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