By 2006 issues between the al-Ahmar family and Saleh’s kin over the latter’s disproportionate control over economic assets had become very political. Five years later, a military confrontation symbolizing the essential dissolution of the Covenant and fragmentation of the ‘covert state’ would take place between the General, Hamid and his brother, Sadeq al-Ahmar, and their respective troops on one side, and Saleh’s forces on the other. The chapter looks at the efforts to prevent the outbreak of civil war in Yemen that seemed imminent. Dominating the strategy was the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that, ignoring and displacing a peace plan proposed by one of Yemen’s political parties, presented its own peace proposal, the negotiations being led by the GCC and Saudi Arabia and backed by US interests. Insufficiently inclusive of Yemenis, the process did not address the more significant demands made by protestors, aside from the removal of Saleh as President. The final GCCI Agreement involved concessions to the ousted Saleh, resulting in his retention of leadership of the GPC and Hadi, the Vice-President, being selected to run in a single candidate election over the interim Presidency. The chapter also introduces thee main parties and political movements that participated—or should have participated—in the development of the GCCI accord..