SANAA, 09 Nov – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Monday said since mid-August it delivered food aid to nearly 100,000 people displaced over the past five years of fighting between government forces and Shiite rebels in north Yemen. According to a press statement by Maria Santamarina, a WFP reports and advocacy official in Sanaa [...]
ABYAN, 07 Nov — Security in the southern region of Abyan Friday arrested “eight terror elements affiliated with fanatic Jihadist groups belonging to extremist, Tareq al-Fadhli,” the ruling party official website, Al-Mithaq reported, adding “the group had committed acts of violence, sabotage, killings and looting of government offices and institutions in the district of Khanfar [...]
LAHJ, 07 Nov — In a statement on its website, the ministry of interior Saturday quoted the coast guard as saying security authorities seized a boat carrying refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea in the territorial waters of Yemen. “The smuggling boat was carrying 164 African refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia,” said the statement, [...]
SANAA, 07 Nov – At the conclusion of a meeting on Saturday, the state-commissioned Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) said it will investigate allegations of corruption in the oil sector in Yemen published by Elaph newspaper including claims of “unimaginable drilling costs, procurements, oil production expenses, salaries of foreign workers, transportations, flights and [...]
SANAA, 07 Nov — The World Bank (WB) Vice President for Middle East and North Africa region, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar Saturday praised “the progress achieved by the Yemeni government in the field of reforms and boosting cooperation between Yemen and development partners including the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council,” the defense ministry online website, [...]
SADAA, 07 Nov – Zaydi Shiite rebels fighting government forces in north Yemen Saturday said in a statement on their website “Saudi warplanes and artillery shelled the district of al-Malahid and neighboring villages inside Yemen,” adding “the Saudi military outpost of mount al-Ramah continue to open fire randomly at Yemeni territories.” But Saudi officials said [...]
SHABWA, 07 Nov – Speaking to hundreds of state officials, and foreign investors gathered in the southern port of Belhaf for the inauguration of Yemen’s first liquefied natural gas export, President Ali Abdullah Saleh Saturday said the war with the Shiite rebels in north Yemen “just started two days ago and what has been happening [...]
SANAA, 24 Oct — A report by the Yemeni Centre for Studies and Media (YMS) Saturday said “poverty rates in Yemen are increasing as a segment of the society is falling beneath the poverty line,” adding “food for the destitute in Yemen remains out of reach and one out of three Yemenis suffers from chronic [...]
SANAA, 11 Oct — Speaking at the opening of the third higher education conference in Sanaa, Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Saleh BaSarah Sunday threatened to cancel licenses of all private universities in Yemen “if they don’t comply with quality criteria and academic standards.” He said “we don’t want buildings or apartments calling themselves universities. [...]
SANAA, 15 Oct — The pro-government daily newspaper, Akhbar al-Youm Thursday quoted ‘special’ sources as saying “Iran provided the Shiite insurgents in Yemen with advanced anti-armour missiles one month before the sixth round of war erupted between the Zaydi Shiite rebels and government forces in north Yemen.” “The information we obtained revealed the missiles were [...]
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