HADRAMOUT, 16 Nov — More than 20,000 people converged on the town of Taraba in Seyoun on Monday to discuss the implications of al-Qaeda attack on security officials in the region two weeks ago in which five top security officials were killed. A number of leading clerics, and dignitaries from Hadramout were in the audience [...]
SANAA, 15 Nov — Speaking at the opening of a 2-day seminar organized by the Ministry of Information to review successes and failures of journalism in Yemen, Information Minister Hassan al-Lawzi Sunday said “the number of newspapers in Yemen has reached 400 in addition to 22 other newspapers owned by political parties and civil society [...]
SANAA, 15 Nov — Director of the Media Section at the state-commissioned Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC), Yassin Abdu Saed Sunday reviewed with a delegation from the German Development Agency, GTZ the role of both his authority and the Central Organization for Control and Audit (COCA) in protecting public funds, the government official [...]
SANAA, 15 Nov — The ministers of finance, oil, and electricity Sunday met to discuss measures to cut fuel subsidies “without affecting people,” the government official daily, al-Thawra reported, adding “the meeting discussed a systematic, unified and practical mechanism to implement cutting subsidies through generating electricity via gas instead of diesel and lowering the cost [...]
SANAA, 13 Nov — Speaking at the Fourth Conference of the Shoura and Congress Councils in Africa and the Arab world held in Morocco, Chairman of the Shoura Council, Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Ghani Friday said Yemen is capable of ending the rebellion in north Yemen, adding “Yemen has enough strength to make its friends and brethren feel [...]
DOHA, 13 Nov — Head of the state-commissioned anti-corruption authority, the Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) Ahmad al-Ansi Friday said “Yemen felt the dangers of corruption from early on and made steps to fight it and avert its consequences.” Al-Ansi who was speaking at the UN-sponsored anti-corruption conference in Doha said “corruption is [...]
SANAA, 13 Nov — Military units Thursday arrested 39 Somali refugees at al-Yatima area in Sadaa, the defense ministry website, 26-September said, adding “the men were in their way to al-Baqa and are being questioned to know their final destination and whether they were in their way to the elements of sabotage and terrorism [Shiite [...]
SANAA, 13 Nov — President Saleh’s son and Commander of the Special and Republican forces, Colonel Ahmad Ali Thursday lashed at what he dubbed “rumormongers and merchants of cheap snoop who seek to spread turbulence amid the ranks of the armed forces in order to target the national unity,” and warned “under the auspices of [...]
SADAA, 06 Nov — Zaydi Shiite rebels battling government forces in north Yemen announced late Friday they repelled a Saudi offensive against their position near al-Dukhan mountain and arrested a number of Saudi soldiers. The rebel group spokesperson, Muhammad Abdul-Salam said “pictures showing the Saudi prisoners and weapons we seized will be shown soon,” [...]
SANAA, 06 Nov — Saudi sources Friday announced the capture of 103 Yemeni Shiite rebels in Jabal al-Dukhan, the London-based Saudi al-Arabyia TV channel reported, adding “the rebels were captured when they tried to attack a Saudi border centre.” Among the captured were 40 men dressed up in women’s clothes and were caught while [...]
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