(Saba) - The security authorities in Shabwa governorate held on Thursday 132 Somali refugees, as arrived in the Rodhom district's coast. A security source in Shabwa said that the refugees have arrived in two groups including 30 women and 7 children. The authorities have sent all the refugees to the temporary camp in Maifa'ah district, he added. On the other hand, the two men from Bangladesh have b ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) doubled its budget in Yemen compared to the previous years, Head of ICRC delegation in Yemen said Wednesday. During his meeting with Interior Minister, Abdul-Qader Qahtan, Eric Marclay said that ICRC has given Yemen a high priority in terms of increasing financial aid for 2013, according to Saba. The Committee will carry out an awareness program ...
Nearly 90% of customs and tax revenues at Yemeni ports have been lost as a number of traders and customs clearance officers have forged purchase invoices of imported commodities, Study Economic and Media Center (SEMC) revealed. SEMC explained that it has documents that prove involvement of many merchants and customs clearance officers to have counterfeited receipts of imported goods and products b ...
Cabinet approved on Tuesday the updated national strategy and investment program (NSIP) for the water sector 2009 - 2015, and stressed that the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation has to provide the necessary funds to implement NSIP through external sources. NSIP, submitted by Water and Environment Minister Abdul Salam Razaz, proposes a set of procedures and institutional and fundin ...
(Reuters) - Nearly half of Yemenis go to bed hungry every night as political instability compounds a global food and fuel price surge, giving the Arabian Peninsula state the world's third-highest rate of child malnutrition, the World Food Programme said on Sunday. Yemen has been in turmoil since last year's revolt against 33 years of rule by Ali Abdullah Saleh when already weak state control in ou ...
Yemen has called for supporting efforts of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi for the success of the transition period and holding the national dialogue conference that includes all Yemeni political parties. In his speech during the first meeting of the Permanent Representatives and senior officials of the League with presence of ambassadors representing the European Union, Yemen’s delegate to ...
Chief of General Staff Ahmed al-Ashwal reviewed here on Monday with US ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein serious actions made by the military affairs committee to reconstruct the armed forces under a unified command. Saba reported that Al-Ashwal and Feierstein discussed the joint cooperation between the two countries' armies in areas of training and expertise exchange in counterterrorism. They ...
The Turkish airline is to launch next Tuesday its non-stop flights from Aden to Istanbul. The Turkish company offers three flights every week and will add one flight by the end of October, director of Turkish airline office in Yemen Ouz Kahraman said. He said that launching this new airline aims to enhance the strong Yemeni-Turkish relations and widen the tourist and commercial exchange between th ...
President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi discussed with US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Washington the security cooperation between Yemen and the USA. During the meeting held in the President's residence, Hadi and Napolitano reviewed cooperation in various areas, particularly in strengthen air ports and harbors' security with modern technology equipments and training fields. The US off ...
Six Yemeni were killed and eight injured in two separate incidents of armed clashes in Yemen on Friday. Local sources of northern Al-Jouf province said four people were killed and three injured in armed clashes between two tribes of Al-Sholan and Hamadan. In Taez province in central Yemen, two people were killed and three were injured in armed clashes between two tribes of Bani Oun and Bani Al-Dai ...
