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(Saba) - Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed met here on Sunday with UN envoy to Yemen Jamal bin Omar. The minister reviewed with the UN official the developments and several issues concerning the implementation of the Gulf initiative, topped by the armed forces reconstruction. Ahmed pointed to the military affairs committee's achievements in this regard and in removing the sources of tension a ... |
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Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi discussed here on Sunday with the German ambassador to Yemen Holger Green bilateral relations between the two countries and ways of enhancing them. The meeting touched on the outcomes of the donors conference held recently in Riyadh and the pledges of Germany during the conference. Al-Qirbi expressed the thanks and appreciation of the Yemeni government for the Ge ... |
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The Parliament approved Sunday sending the report of the special committee, in charge of determining the security issues the government is required to give explanation, to the Interior Minister to explain these issues and the actions taken regarding them, on next Saturday session. The report included a set of serious issues, raised in the Parliament and among the community in the recent time. On t ... |
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 The traffic accidents in the various roads of the Yemeni cities resulted in the death of 60 people and the injury of more than 300 others, in one week. According to a report issued by the General Administration of Traffic, the deaths and injuries were caused by 184 traffic accidents occurred during the first week of this September. 41 of the accidents were turnover, 93 crashes, and 50 running over ... |
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The Consultative Group Meeting for the Republic of Yemen concluded deliberations in Riyadh with an announcement of $6.4bn in pledges toward the 2012 - 2014 short and medium term priorities of Yemen's Transitional Program for Stabilization and Development. More than 280 participants from 27 donor countries, and 36 regional development and international financial institutions as well as observers fr ... |
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 Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Abdul Salam Karman said that the Gulf initiative is not a compromise, but rather a transitional political process that was produced by the peaceful and popular youth revolution and will continue until it achieves all of its goals. She added that Yemen is moving toward the future, toward building a civil state that is based on equal citizenship, where everyone is en ... |
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Yemeni officer in the capital in a “terrorist” attack late on Wednesday, the third assassination targeting senior officers in two weeks, the defence ministry said. Colonel Yahya Saleh Al-Khalidi, director of the office of the head of Duleimi air base in Sanaa, was shot dead by “criminal elements... in a treacherous terrorist attack,” it said ... |
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 Relatives of victims of the U.S. air raid, which targeted Radda area last Sunday, said that survivors of the accident are suffering deliberate negligence as they have not been treated but only given first aid when they arrived in Jumhoori Hospital in Sana'a. "The Yemeni government should provide them with necessary medical care even take them abroad for treatment," said Lawyer Abdul-Rahm ... |
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 Global donors Tuesday made aid pledges worth $6.4 billion to Yemen, the World Bank said, half of what Sanaa says it needs to weather a rough political transition triggered by Arab Spring protests. The new figure is up from $4 billion pledged to the impoverished state at a meeting of the Friends of Yemen in May. Saudi Arabia had solely promised $3.25 billion of the $4 billion raised in May. "T ... |
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 (Saba) - Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa headed on Monday for Saudi capital, Riyadh, to chair the Yemeni high-rank delegation in the donor meeting to kick off on Tuesday. Upon his departure, the Premier was optimistic about the success of the meeting in rallying the financial resources to help Yemen to fulfill the requirements of the transitional stage. During the two-day meeting, Yemen wil ... |
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