SANA’A: Yemen’s Human Rights Minister Hooria Mashour announced on Wednesday at a press Conference that she estimated that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh had committed more crimes in his three decades in power against the Yemeni people than the abuses witnessed under the British military occupation in South Yemen. The attack came amidst news that [...]
SANA’A: In a recent statement to the press, Alistair Burt, the UK Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, expressed his views on Yemen saying that it was now time for foreign nations to truly grasp the danger posed by the country’s crippling humanitarian crisis. “Sir, Collette Fearon is right to [...]
Under the auspices of the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), leaders from the Shiite Houthi Movement and the Islamist Islah Party held talks in Cairo over the past couple of days. Al-Masdar online newspaper reported on Wednesday citing what it has called a familiar source with the matter that high-ranking leading figures from both parties met [...]
SANA’A: A young 23-year-old woman from Sana’a was buried last week by her family after her cancer spread to her brain and other organs. Fatma, whose life was cut short by cancer was diagnosed 8 months ago with a stage 2 breast cancer, which doctors said they could treat through surgery and an aggressive round [...]
SANA’A: Although much has been written on legendary Queen Sheba, Yemen’s most prominent figure in history, little is actually known of this mysterious monarch, which the legend has it met with prophet Suleiman, a pivotal religious figure in all three monotheist religions. Legends of the Queen of Sheba are common throughout Arabia, Persia, Ethiopia, Israel [...]
SANA’A: Yemen’s Minister of Trade and Industry asserted that the technical barriers are of the effects that hinder the country’s attitudes towards economic integration and to enhance procession of Arab Customs Union, delaying its joining World Trade Organization as a result of conflicts among the members countries in means, ways and procedures of verification of [...]
SANA’A: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Yemen’s government and more specifically the Press and Publication court for continuing its “charade” of justice against two al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested last year while covering the uprising. In a written statement, the CPJ also demanded the Cabinet not to revive a restrictive Audio-Visual and Electronic [...]
SANA’A: Military sources based in the southern province of Abyan told Bikyamasr.com that the armed forces backed by local tribesmen and United States warplanes were making “real progress” against al-Qaeda militants. After four days of an intense multi-front battle, with American and Yemeni warplanes pounding the Islamists from the air, foreign warships situated off the [...]
SANA’A: As announced by the Washington Post, this Wednesday American President Barak Obama is to sign an executive order, which would give the Treasury Department the ability to freeze the assets of whoever, American or foreign, would impede Yemen’s transition process or help another party hinder its progress. The move came after several Yemeni officials [...]
SANA’A: As the Yemen government is waging war against al-Qaeda in its southern province in a bid to rid Yemen of all Islamic militants and regain control over all its territories, the tribes are still engaged in a pro-anti former regime argument with loyalists to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh returning to the streets of [...]
SANA’A: According to official reports from Yemen’s defense ministry, the country’s armed forces are making decisive advances against al-Qaeda in the southern province of Abyan, having managed to regain strategic positions. Mount Yasouf near Lawder was retaken from the Islamists earlier today by the People’s Committee, a group of local tribal fighters in league with [...]
SANA’A: 2011 was a catastrophic year in terms of tourism in Yemen as the country was enthralled in a violent popular uprising. 2012 and the threat of terror attacks have turned out to be as lethal to the ailing industry sector. Despite a rich cultural heritage stretching millennia and breathtaking scenery, Yemen is its own [...]
SANA’A: The Central Security Forces in Sana’a told Bikyamasr.com that it had alerted the interior ministry of a potential al-Qaeda bomb attack in Sana’a as intelligence reports pointed out to the presence of Islamic militants within the city. According to sources within the ministry, Abdullah Mohamed Jabir al-Shabwani, a well-known terrorist would have managed to [...]
SANA’A: Early last month reports came out that Yemen’s finance ministry had release large sums of money for the construction of a mosque within the grounds of al-Iman University, which incidentally happens to belong to controversial Sheikh Abdel Mageed al-Zindani. The prominent cleric and tribal leader has figured on several of America’s most wanted terror [...]
SANA’A: Police officers in Yemen’s capital Sana’a told Bikyamasr.com that a group of 7 drunk Yemeni youth attacked a 13-year-old orphan girl. After raping her, the young men beat up the orphan so badly that she succumbed to the blows of her attackers. Residents told our correspondent that they felt utterly disgusted, stressing that never [...]
SANA’A: Addressing the press, Yemen’s Oil Minister Hisham Sharaf said on Monday that the country had suffered big losses due to the persistent attacks on its oil and gas pipelines. At a meeting with the French foreign minister’s Middle East advisor for economic affairs, Sharaf said the losses due to the several-month shutdown of the [...]
SANA’A: According to the local authorities, al-Qaeda militants based in the eastern province of Mareb in Yemen have once again targeted the country’s oil and gas infrastructure by damaging a pipeline, prompting a halt in production on Monday. An improvised explosive device was used in the blast near the city of Mayfaa in Shabwa province. [...]
Sana’a – On 21 February Yemenis went to the polls and elected former vice president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi as president in a one-candidate referendum, ending the 33 year-rule of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Some see this as the end of the struggle between political elites and the popular, peaceful youth revolutionary movement. But [...]
SANA’A: Amid reports this week that armed “elements” in Yemen’s capital Sana’a continue to spread chaos and terror by targeting foreign officials, reports are now coming through of a bomb attack against Yemen Information Minister, Ali al-Amrani. Unidentified gunmen targeted his house by throwing a bomb at his house on Saturday, running away on a [...]
SANA’A: A gas exporting pipeline was attacked by a saboteur on Friday in Yemen’s eastern province of Mareb. Security sources in Mareb said that a saboteur blew up a gas pipeline in al-Dmashiqa district of al-Wadi city. Friday’s attack is the newest of series sabotages conducted by tribesmen in Mareb province, which targeted the vital [...]
Home and Garden | Dresses | Wedding Dresses UK | Used Car Prices UK | Forex Trading Online
XForex is an innovative company which has developed a robust and unique forex trading online platform for foreign currency trading.
Enter your email address below to receive updates each time we publish new content.
EGYPT: Sharia El-Mazhar, Zamalek,
Cairo, 11211
Newsdesk: 00 20 (0) 19 650 8236
If you are passionate about the environment, and want to accelerate the exchange of information, and the impact of change, this guide is for you.
Loading ...
