Published on 14 May 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA'A, May 13 - A source from the National Unity Government, composed of the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh's General Peoples Congress (GPC) and the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), declared that the Houthis gave unreasonable conditions last Thursday to participate in the National Dialogue Conference (NDC).
Published on 14 May 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
SANA’A, May 13 – Colonel Mohammed Hassan Al-Dobai, the Staff General of the Second Mountainous Infantry Republican Guard Brigade, was killed inside the Brigade headquarters on Friday evening. The headquarters of the brigade are located in Al-Khorafi military camp to the north of Sana’a.
Published on 14 May 2012 by Khalid Al-Karimi in News
SANA’A, May 13 – Despite winning unprecedented accolades from local officials at an honor ceremony, municipality workers in Sana’a continue to pressure the government to accelerate procedures outlined in a March cabinet decree to hire them officially and under permanent contracts.
Published on 14 May 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, May 13, The World Bank is working to appoint a group of international advisors to help the Yemeni government create job opportunities to support comprehensive development within the two-year transitional period.
Published on 14 May 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
MUKALLA, May 13 — In the second phase of a successful project and the first of its kind in Hadramout, four hundred and thirty-eight schoolboys returned to class after dropping out on account of their poverty–stricken families.
Published on 14 May 2012 by Samar Qaed in News
SANA’A, MAY 13 – The Yemeni government, represented by the Ministry Of Planning and International Cooperation and the U.N. Developmental Program (UNDP), signed the project document, “Urgent Response For Development,” in Sana’a on Saturday, May 12.
Published on 14 May 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
ABYAN, May 13 — The Yemeni army on Saturday attacked Al Qaeda strongholds in Zunjubar and Lawdar cities in Abyan governorate in a bid to retrieve the two cities held by militants since May last year.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Khalid Al-Karimi in News
HADRMOUT — Residents of coastal Hadramout are anxious after receiving threats that their power supply will be cut off.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
HAJJA — Residents of Bani Jamal, a village in Qofl Shamr area, Hajja governorate, have been suffering from dengue fever for the past month.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Ashraf Al-Muraqeb in News
SANA’A — The Minster of Electricity, Saleh Sumae, called for the intervention of the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior in order to stop the repetitive assaults on the power station in Marib governorate.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Khalid Al-Karimi in News
Sana'a — Political Parties in Yemen expressed different attitudes on the newly established Communication Committee set up by President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi on Sunday.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Ghayda Al-Ariqi in News
SANA'A — During a visit to Ta'iz last week, the Yemeni Prime Minister, Mohammed Salem Basindawa, declared that he would revoke financial allocations for sheikhs included in the budget passed by the Yemeni parliament last month. The declaration caused disputes among sheikhs.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqatari in News
SANA'A — The Yemeni Interior Ministry has highlighted humanitarian abuses that African refugees undergo at various smuggling points along the Saudi-Yemeni border.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
ABYAN — It is reported that more than 22 soldiers have been killed in an attack carried out by Ansar Al-Sharia on two military position belonging to the 115th Brigade in the Dofes and Alkood areas of Abyan governorate on Monday morning.
Published on 10 May 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA’A — The new leader of the 3rd Republican Guard Brigade, Abdurrahman Al-Halili, has been unable to assume control of his new position since he was appointed to replace former president Saleh’s nephew, Tareq Mohamed Abdullah Saleh, on April 6 by President Hadi.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Eman Tuhama in News
SANA'A — The Care and Rehabilitation Association for the Deaf and Mute (CRADM), in cooperation with Al-Mostaqbal School for the Deaf, celebrated the graduation of its fourth class on Saturday.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Ashraf Al-Muraqeb in News
SANA’A — About 60,000 new employees hired by the government last year will receive their first salary on Tuesday, the minister of civil service, Nabeel Shamsan said.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A — The European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights delegation to Yemen called on Thursday for the immediate release of all political detainees to pave the way for the coming National Dialogue Conference.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A — Only two percent of the Yemeni population controls 80 percent of Yemen’s wealth, while the remaining 98 percent forms the middle and lower class, according to Ahmed Shammakh, a Yemeni economist.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
MUKALLA — The Investing Electric Power Company which provides energy to coastal areas of Hadramout has threatened to cut off electricity, unless the government pays its past-due bills. The threat comes in response to a new two week deadline set by the government on May 6.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ — The Al-Sa’eed Foundation for Science and Culture held a ceremony on Thursday in which it bestowed the Award for Sciences and Arts on winners of the 15th annual Haj Hayel Saeed Anam competition.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Amal Al-Yarisi in News
SANA’A — Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the national unity government, said on Saturday that 29 of Yemen’s ambassadors abroad will be changed after former ones have been called home.
Published on 7 May 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
ABYAN — Fierce clashes in the city of Lawdar in Abyan governorate went on for an hour and a half on Sunday between Ansar Al-Sharia, an Al-Qaeda offshoot, and local people’s committees, residents organizations established to fight Ansar Al-Sharia, according to Ali Ahmed Eida, spokesman of the people’s committees.
Published on 3 May 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A — The third round of the international Iken Scientifica competition for scientific inventions concluded last Thursday in Sana’a.
Published on 3 May 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
HADRAMOUT — A French Citizen working with Total French company was injured and two Yemeni soldiers killed on Tuesday evening when unknown masked men attempted to kidnap the French man in Hadramout, in eastern Yemen, a security source told the Yemen Times on Wednesday.
Published on 3 May 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA’A — The Houthis said that they will not take part in the upcoming national dialogue set to kick off soon, as maintained in the GCC-initiated, Western-backed backed power transfer deal singed in the Saudi capital Riyadh last November.
Published on 3 May 2012 by Yasser Ezzi in News
SANA’A - The National Democratic Institute (NDI), in collaboration with Yemen’s Legal Affairs Ministry, held a workshop in Sana’a to discuss the transitional justice draft law on April 25-26, 2012.
Published on 3 May 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
HODEIDA — Dengue fever infection increased in Al-Lohaia district, overlooking the Red Sea, in the south-west of the coastal governorate of Hodeida.
Published on 30 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SHABWA, April 29 — The Deputy Governor of Shabwa, Ali Rashed Al-Harithi, stated on Saturday that Shabwa is in urgent need of more security and military deployments to prevent the expansion of Al-Qaeda’s affiliated groups and their sabotage of international oil companies working in the area.
Published on 30 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 29 — The intention of revolutionary youth to participate in the upcoming National Dialogue Conference (NDC) raised controversy in the last few days.
Published on 30 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 29 - The abduction of Abdullah Al-Khaledi, the Saudi deputy consul on March 28 in Aden, prompted Saudi Arabia to insinuate an alliance between Iran and Ansar Al-Sharia, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in Yemen.
Published on 30 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
ABYAN, April 29 — Ansar Al-Sharia, a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, on Sunday released 73 soldiers from Ja’ar in Abyan that have been held captive for two months.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 25 — The World Health Organization (WHO) has started to distribute necessary vaccines in Yemen to stop six lethal diseases.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
HADRAMOUT, April 25 — Lieutenant Colonel Adnan Ukeesh, head of the Drug Control Department in Hadramout, died in a hail of bullets from unidentified militants in the town of Ras Hwaira, some 100 kilometers from Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, April 25 — General Mohammed Saleh Al-Ahmar, who was dismissed as command of the Air Force on April 6th, has finally left his office on Tuesday after defying President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi’s decree for 19 days.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 25 — Yusof Al-Kebsi, a sixth grade student from the Yemen Modern School in Sana’a, holds the mini-elevator he has made in his hands. He dreams of winning a trip to NASA awarded by the international Iken Scientifica competition for scientific inventions.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 25 — The Yemeni parliament approved on Tuesday citizens’ right to information, after a delay of over four years since the bill was proposed.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Abdurahman Anees in News
ABYAN, April 25 — Ansar Al-Sharia, a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda controlling the cities of Zinjibar and Jaar in Abyan governate, announced in a statement released on Monday that it intends to execute more than 70 captured soldiers, along with several officers, starting next Monday, April 30.
Published on 23 April 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A, April 22 — Abdulmajeed Al-Zandani, a prominent Yemeni cleric and a leading Islah party figure, called on militant groups on Friday to renounce violence and to participate in the upcoming national dialogue due to kick off before long, as maintained by the GCC-brokered power transfer deal.
Published on 23 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
AL-MAHRA, April 22 — Forces of the Yemeni Coast Guard, in coordination with Spanish Naval Forces in the Gulf of Aden, freed a Yemeni fishing boat from Somali pirates on Friday, 42 miles off the coast of Al-Mahra governorate, south of the port of Nashtun.
Published on 23 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, April 22 — On Friday, the new commander of the Southern Military Region, General Salem Qatn, who replaced former president Saleh's aide, General Mahdi Maqwala, suspended a military officer accused of smuggling weapons to Ansar Al-Sharia, an Al-Qaeda affiliated militant group, reported state-run newspaper Al-Jomhoriah on Saturday.
Published on 23 April 2012 by Mohammed Abdulaleem in News
SHABWA, April 22 — Security forces affiliated with the Yemeni 3rd Naval Brigade deployed extensively last Saturday around the Yemen Liquid Natural Gas Company on the harbor in Belhaf, Shabwa governorate, and imposed several blockades in anticipation of attacks from Ansar Al-Sharia, a militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
Published on 23 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 22 – The flow of African refugees in Yemen, in particular Somalis, has sparked a wave of accusations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Published on 23 April 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
SA’ADA, April 22 — Ten people were killed and two others wounded in bloody confrontations took place on Saturday between Houthi armed men and four students of Dar Al-Hadeeth Salafi School in the Dammaj area of Sa’ada.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Abdurrahman Shamlan for the Yemen Times in News
SANA’A, April 18 – Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday that its kidnapped diplomat, Abdullah Al-Khaledi, who was abducted near his house in the port city of Aden last month, is being held by a Yemen-based Al-Qaeda branch, ending twenty days of uncertainty surrounding his fate.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ, April 18 — The newly-appointed governor of Taiz, Shawqi Ahmed Hayel, met on Monday morning with the representatives of protesters from the 33rd Armored Brigade in the governorship building in Taiz.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 18 — The state of anger is heightening over the kidnapping of the doctor, Tamim Al-Shami, in the Military Hospital in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Sunday.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A, April 18 – The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) signed an agreement on Monday in the Moroccan city of Marrakech granting Yemen USD 65 million.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Mohamed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A, April 18 — The preparatory committee of the Disabled Care and Rehabilitation Fund (DCRF) staff condemns the phone call death threats against the staff made in reaction to their demonstrations demanding the dismissal of their manager on grounds of corruption, Abdullah Al-Hamdani.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, April 18 — Since the Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced a full strike on Tuesday, commercial shops in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a have been closed.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A, April 18 – General Mohammed Saleh Al-Ahmar, the dismissed commander of the Air Force still refuses to leave his office despite a republican decree that removed him from his position on April 6, according to a source in the Air Force.
Published on 16 April 2012 by Mohammed Abdlalim in News
SHABWA — Locals sources said that a number of oil companies in Shabwa governorate, in Yemen's east, told the government that their work is threatened due to recent repeated attacks on oil pipelines by anonymous armed men.
Published on 16 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A — Yemen’s Counter-terrorism Unit (CTU) has arrived Abyan to engage in the fighting against Ansar Al-Sharia for the first time since the group took control of towns in the governorate in May last year.
Published on 16 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A – The large piles of accumulated garbage in the streets of the Yemeni capital, as well as in the other governorates, required exceptional efforts to remove.
Published on 16 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A – The Yemeni Minister for Human Rights, Huria Mashhor, said that the ministerial committee formed last week will start a dialogue with the various youth entities and organizations across the freedom squares in the country.
Published on 16 April 2012 by Abdurrahman Anees in News
ABYAN — Armed men from Ansar Al-Sharia launched an attack against the 111th Infantry Brigade in the south of Lawdar on the morning of Monday April 9, a local resident told the Yemen Times.
Published on 12 April 2012 by Mohamad Al-Emad in News
SANA’A — “Time prolongs, but our patience has no limits,” says Mohammad Aseer, a revolutionary who came to ‘Change Square’ at the beginning of the revolution in February last year and remains there today.
Published on 12 April 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samie in News
SANA’A — Yemenis feel that their standard of living has improved a little since the national unity government was formed in December last year. The Yemeni rial has appreciated against the US dollar from a low of around YR 240 per dollar during last year>s crisis, to a current rate of YR 215 per dollar.
Published on 12 April 2012 by Mohammad Al-Samaee in News
SANA’A — Street cleaners in the capital Sana’a are still on strike; though Prime Minister Mohammad Salim Basindawa ordered that they be officially hired.
Published on 12 April 2012 by Ahmed Daood in News
SANA’A — Qasam Ahmed Al-Dharahani, the rotating head of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), died on Monday after he was washed away by floods in the Al-Anad area in the southern governorate of Al-Dhale’. The unexpected death of Al-Dharahani has sent shockwaves through the political sector of the country.
Published on 12 April 2012 by Ahmed Daood in News
SANA’A — Armed tribesmen affiliated with the head of the General People's Congress, Fahad Dahshoosh, imposed a siege last Tuesday on the government compound in the middle of the city of Hajjah. They were protesting a decree from President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi, who appointed Ali Al-Qaisi as the new governor of Hajjah.
Published on 12 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A — Ansar Al-Sharia recommenced fighting in Lawdar on Wednesday morning after being pushed out on Monday.
Published on 12 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A — A recent report from the World Bank confirms that Yemen’s oil reserves will only last for another 12 years.
Published on 9 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
HAJJA, April 7- Hadi Hajeni was happy with his 1-year-old girl. Hajeni now speaks in a pained voice because Suad passed away two weeks ago, after suffering from acute cough.
Published on 9 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, April 8 – Seventy three soldiers from Yemen’s army are still being held hostage by Ansar Al-Sharia, the Al-Qaeda affiliated group in Abyan. The troops were captured during violent confrontations with the army in early March.
Published on 9 April 2012 by Amal Al-Yarisi in News
SHBWA, April 8- Martha, a close friend of Sylvia Abrahat, a 32-year-old Swiss hostage still being held in Shabwa governorate, has denied to speak in detail to Yemen Times about her friend.
Published on 9 April 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
SANA’A, April 8 – The Political Security head office in Sana’a was fired upon heavily by unknown persons at 9pm last Monday resulting in the injury of several guards.
Published on 9 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, April 7 – President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi issued on Friday several republican decrees changing three military leaders and four governors.
Published on 9 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A, April 8 — On Sunday Sana’a International Airport resumed its operations, after a halt lasting more than a day.
Published on 7 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A – Since Saturday morning all flights from Sana’a International Airport have been stopped and air travel to Sana’a from abroad diverted to Aden International Airport.
Published on 7 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A – President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi issued on Friday several republican decrees changing three military leaders and four governors.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Samar Qaed in News
ADEN, April 5 – Haidar Abu Bakr Al-Attas, former prime minister of first national unity government in 1990 and his deputy then, Saleh Obaid Ahmed are expected to arrive Aden from Saudi Arabia in the coming few days,
Published on 5 April 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A — Military committees of the Ministry of Defense are continuing to count the assets of the Yemeni army, according to an officer from the ministry who requested anonymity.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Abdurrahman Anees in News
ADEN — Amid complete silence by the Yemeni authorities and various rumors circulating by media outlets, mystery still surrounds the kidnapping of the Saudi deputy consul Abdullah Al-Khaledi in the southern port city of Aden.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
ADEN – On Tuesday night, militants believed to be from Ansar Al-Shriah fired mortar shells against Badar military airbase located in the Khor Maksar district of Aden.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A — On Tuesday, armed tribesmen from the Bani Hushaish tribal area, 30 km northeast of the capital Sana’a, blocked the 172-km Sana’a-Mareb road. As of writing, the road is still closed.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samie in News
SANA'A — Yemen's Oil Company announced on Wednesday a reduction in petrol and kerosene prices of around 29 percent.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samie in News
SANA’A — Bin Laden’s Yemeni widow, Amal Abdul-Fattah Al-Sada, was sentenced to 45 days house arrest in Pakistan last Monday.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Abdurrahman Anees in News
ADEN — The group AnsarAl-Sharia (Supporters of Islamic Law) has denied the execution of a number of the Yemeni soldiers in the city of Jaar, in Abyan province, saying that a number of the soldiers had been killed during an attack against a military checkpoint in Al-Malah district in the province of Lahj. It emphasized that they killed none of the captured soldiers.
Published on 5 April 2012 by Ashraf Al-Murqab in News
SANA’A — Armed groups affiliated to Sadeq Al-Ahmar, the tribal leader of the Hashid confederation, one of the largest Yemeni tribes, have re-centered in some barracks and behind sandbags again in Al-Hasaba and other positions close Al-Ahmar’s house that they had evacuated in November.
Published on 2 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
LAHJ — Al-Qaeda militants attacked a military position of Brigade 119 commanded by Faisal Rajab on Saturday in the area of Al-Haroor located between Abyan and Lahj governorates. Rajab had previously sided with the opposition against Saleh’s regime.
Published on 2 April 2012 by Mohamed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A — After continued protests a number of directors of government institutions have been dismissed by republican decree over the past few days.
Published on 2 April 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A — Huge quantities of Saudi cement are being smuggled to Yemeni markets at competitive prices due to the decline of the local supply and the increase of the demand in the Yemen.
Published on 2 April 2012 by Mohamed Abdalalim in News
SHABWA, April 1 — One Yemeni civilian was killed and six others were injured in a US drone strike at 4pm on Friday in Azzan of Shabwa governorate, east Yemen, eyewitnesses told the Yemen Times.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A, March 28 — A recently leaked report claims that about $1.6 million was stolen in 2010 during the construction of the four-star Palace Hotel in the port city of Aden.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
ADEN, March 28 — According to local and security sources, Saudi Deputy Consul Abdullah Al-Khaledi was kidnapped by unidentified men while on his way to work in Aden on Wednesday.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Mohammad Al-Samei in News
SA’ADA, March 28 — Faris Mana'a, the governor of Sa’ada governorate, has said that that the outcomes of meetings between a government delegation and governorate officials were constructive, and also pointed out that the governorate will take part in the upcoming national dialogue on condition that the interim government assume its constitutional and legal responsibilities toward Sa’ada.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA’A, Mar . 28— After ending their sit-in near president Hadi’s house, Air Forces protesters have continued to wait for Hadi’s promises to dismiss Air Force leader Mohammed Saleh Al-Ahmar to be fulfilled.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Yemen Times Staff in News
SANA’A, March 28- Under the auspices of Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa, the Ministry of Human Rights and the National Committee for Women organized the National Conference for Women under the banner of “Together in the Path, Together in Decision-Making” on March 20.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Abdul-Kareem Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR, March 21- A tribal decision has led to a demand that archaeology police in the ancient Al-Masna’at Mariah in Dhamar’s Ans district pay YR 11 million as <diyah’ (blood money) to the family of the slain member of a gang of looters.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, March 28 — Violent clashes have again erupted in Arhab – which sits 30 km north of Sana’a – so far leaving two tribesmen dead and others injured, a local source told the Yemen Times on Wednesday.
Published on 26 March 2012 by Mohmaed Abdalalim in News
Published on 26 March 2012 by Mohamed Al-Samei in News
Published on 26 March 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
Published on 26 March 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
Published on 26 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
Published on 22 March 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
ADEN — The coastal city of Aden has faced an oil crisis over the past seven days. The shortage began after employees at the Aden Refinery went on strike to demand worker's rights and past-due salaries.
Published on 22 March 2012 by Marwa Najmaldin in News
SANA’A — The National Women’s Conference was opened by Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindawa last Monday in Sana’a.
Published on 22 March 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A — A sandstorm has blanketed Yemen and most Gulf States in air heavy with dust since Monday.
Published on 22 March 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
SANA’A — The results of thousands of students at Sana’a University have been withheld by many lecturers who were hired by the university on a contract basis. The lecturers are complaining that they have not received their wages for the last four months, and are using the students’ results to put pressure on the university management.
Published on 22 March 2012 by Ahmed Daood in News
SANA’A — Under Yemeni law, Mohammed Ismail Al-Haddi, a 19-year-old high school graduate, is eligible to obtain an ID card. In reality, though, Al-Haddi couldn't obtain a card for two months.
Published on 22 March 2012 by Abdurrahman Anees in News
ADEN – After five years of popular demonstrations that coalesced into the Southern Movement, workers from the south, including lawyers, journalists and artists, have began leaving the syndicates and associations based in the capital Sana’a.
Published on 20 March 2012 by Mohamed Abdalalim in News
SHABWA, March 19 – Sylvia Abrahat, a 32-year-old Swiss woman abducted from Hodeida on March 16 has been found in Al-Awlaki’s hometown of Al-Saeed, in Shabwa governorate, local sources have said.
Published on 19 March 2012 by Fuad Mussed in News
ADEN – Military aircraft continued to target and bomb al-Qaeda locations in the southern governorate of Abyan on Sunday, local sources told the Yemen Times.
Published on 19 March 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
RABAT – The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability – Arab World (ANSA-AW) was launched last Thursday in Rabat, with the presence of seven Arab countries’ representatives including Yemen.
Published on 19 March 2012 by Marwa Najmaldin in News
SANA’A – Starting last Wednesday, the state-run Al-Thawra daily newspaper disappeared from newsstands. The paper’s editorial board has decided to suspend its publication for financial reasons.
Published on 19 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A – The Supreme Criminal Court released on Saturday the Yemeni physician and eye specialist Tawfeeq Dhaeban, after about eight months in custody.
Published on 19 March 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A – A survey from the World Food Program (WFP) has revealed that about five million Yemenis are suffering from acute food insecurity.
Published on 19 March 2012 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ — On Sunday morning unidentified men murdered an American teacher, Joel Shrun, head of the English department at a Swedish-run language center, while he was going to work in Al-Maassel valley, in the west of Taiz.
Published on 19 March 2012 by Muaadh Al-Maqtari & Mohamed Abdalalim in News
SHABWA — Yemeni authorities continue to search for Sylvia Abrahat, a 32-year-old Swiss woman who was abducted last Tuesday from the 7th of July street in Hodeida governorate.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A, March 14 — Political parties and civil society organizations in Yemen are now engaging in heated debates on the draft Transitional Justice Law presented by the Ministry of Legal Affairs earlier this month.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A, March 14 — Following demonstrations by disabled care receivers and employees to demand the dismissal of manager Abdullah Al-Hamdani, administration figures at the Disabled People’s Fund have threatened to halt services within a month's time.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
ADEN, March, 14 — Locals in Khoor Maksr in Aden have affirmed that they heard nearby violent clashes take place between Al-Qaeda militants and Yemeni army forces that lasted until Wednesday morning.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Muaad Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, March 14 — Yemeni fishermen in Hodeida have located nearly 21 large pieces of lead ballast (heavy material carried by a ship to make it more steady), which were cast off ships and now lie 800 meters off the Hodeida coastline. The solid waste is believed by locals to contain toxic nuclear materials.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A, March 14 — In response to a call by the Yemeni Petroleum Company’s General Workers’ Union, employees of the company began a full-fledged, nationwide strike on Tuesday.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Marwa Najmaldin in News
SANA’A, March 14 — President Hadi’s press secretary, Yahya Al-Arasi, has denied the truth of assorted news reports that Hadi had dismissed former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s nephew, Tariq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, from his post of commander of the Presidential Guard.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Ahmed Daood in News
SANA’A, March 14 — Yemen’s cabinet last week approved the 2012 budget, the largest budget in Yemen’s history.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, March 14 — Yemen's Sunni Salafis announced on Wednesday the introduction of a new political party by the name of the Yemeni Rashad Union.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Marwa Najmaldin in News
SANA’A, March 11 — A group of doctors and staff at the Cancer Center at the Republican Hospital demonstrated on Sunday morning. They objected to instructions by president Hadi that former manager of the center Dr. Nadeem Muhammed Saeed be reinstated.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
Sana’a, March 11 — A delegation from the American-Turkish PEG company and its partners is expected to arrive in Sana’a on Monday in response to an invitation by Electricity Minister Saleh Sumai’a.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Muaadh Al-Maqtari in News
SANA’A, March 11 — Even though the Arab Spring did not extend to north Sudan, Sudanese leadership has begun making coalitions with Islamists both inside and outside Sudan, including with Islamists in Yemen.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Marwa Najmaldin in News
SANA’A, March 11 — On Saturday morning, students from two colleges at Sana’a University’s old campus returned to start the first semester of 2012 after a suspension of their studies which began in February 2011.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
ADEN, March 11 — On Saturday, Aden's security services put into effect a plan to establish stability and protect the city from infiltration by Al-Qaeda militants from neighboring Abyan governorate.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samei in News
SANA’A, March 11 – The Minister of Interior, Abdulqader Qahtan has fired the dean of the Police Academy, Hussein Al-Othari and replaced him with Mohammed Al-Asta’a, the senior instructor of the college, a security source told the Yemen Times on Saturday.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, March 11 — Wefaq, a newly-established civil society organization, spoke out this week against attempts to cause Yemen’s power transition deal and the implementation of the GCC initiative to fail.
Published on 12 March 2012 by Abdurrahman Anees in News
ABYAN, March 11 — More than 40 people were killed in air -raids carried out against Al-Qaeda militant strongholds in the governorates of Abyan and Al-Baidhaa on Friday evening. For its part, the Ansar Al-Shariah militant group recognized the deaths of only 17 militants.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samie in News
SANA’A, March. 7— Darkness returned to Sana’a and other governorates after unknown persons bombed power lines in Marib governorate on Wednesday, said representatives of Yemen’s Public Electricity Corporation.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Mohammed Al-Samaei in News
SANA’A, March 7 – Sources at the Yemen Oil Company have revealed to the Yemen Times that the head of the company, Omar Al-Arhabi, resigned last Monday and left the country for medical treatment in Jordan.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA’A, March 7 — Thousands of soldiers, pilots and officers of Yemen’s Air Force are continuing their sit-in, demanding the overthrow of the Commander of Air Forces, General Mohammed Saleh Al-Ahmer.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SANA’A, March 7 – On the occasion of the International Day for Women, a conference entitled “Advocating for women’s rights and empowerment among new changes” was organized by the Yemeni Women’s Union (YWU) and funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) on Wednesday.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Mohamed Al-Samei in News
SHABWA, March 7 — Unidentified men believed to have links with Al-Qaeda attacked a military vehicle in the Nusab district of Shabwa governorate on Tuesday.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
SANA’A, March 7 — Saeed Ubaid Al-Jemhi, a Yemeni expert on Al-Qaeda accused the terrorist organization on Monday of working to disrupt the power transition deal which could lead to a new regime of security and stability.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SANA’A, March 5 – British Member of Parliament, Alistair Burt, currently the parliamentary under secretary for the Middle East and North African region has just concluded a short visit to Yemen this week.
Published on 8 March 2012 by Abdurrahman Anees in News
ABYAN, March 7 — At least 150 soldiers died, while another 40 were left injured, as a result of intense fighting with the Ansar Al-Shariah group in Dofus last Sunday.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
ABYAN, March 4- Military sources in Abyan have confirmed that the same Ansar Al-Sharia group which gained control of Abyan in May 2011 killed six soldiers in Al-Kood district on Sunday evening.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Ahmed Daood in News
ADEN, March 4- Over the last two days, Aden governorate witnessed the appointment of new military and security commanders.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Mohamed Al-Samei in News
Al-BAIDA, March 4- Saturday morning's blast in Al-Baida, which targeted a Republican Guard military base, caused great material damage, eyewitnesses told the Yemen Times.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA’A, March. 4 — Yemen’s government is planning to advance Yemen’s declined economy through the restoration of basic services such as electricity, fuel supply, water and infrastructure.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Ahmed Dawood in News
MARIB, March. 4 — A Yemeni citizen blew up an oil pipe in Marib governorate on Friday, over alleged legal demands, a tribal source told the Yemen Times.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Ahmed Daood in News
SANA'A, March. 4— Yemeni security forces removed armed men from the main office of state-run Al-Thawra newspaper in Sana'a on Saturday.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Abdul Kareem Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR, March 4 — An Iraqi academic, taken hostage by tribal gunmen from Dhamar governorate eight days ago, was released unharmed on Wednesday evening, a security source reported.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SANA’A, March 4 — The second most important step following the early presidential elections is the national dialogue according to the Gulf Initiative agreement signed in November last year.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Abdulkareem Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR, March 4 — Al-Kuraimi Exchange Company last week closed its two branches in Dhamar following a failed armed burglary at one of its exchange shops last Sunday. One of the armed men who attempted the break in was killed and another injured.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
MUKALLA, March 4 — Despite unprecedented security deployments, suspected Al-Qaeda operatives recently intensified attacks against security bases and officers in Hadramout governorate.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Yasser Ezzi in News
SANAN’A, Feb 29 — Discussions are underway to make wide-ranging changes of local authorities that will include governors, their deputies and security chiefs, sources from the Yemeni opposition told the Yemen Times.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA’A, Feb. 29 — Despite the perceived success of the recent presidential election and the departure of Ali Abdullah Saleh, thousands of youths continue to camp out at ‘Change Squares’ in Sana’a and other governorates.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Yemen Times Staff in News
SANA’A, Feb. 29 – The only way to guarantee that any donor-lead intervention succeeds in supporting Yemen’s economy is through donor countries establishing their own development institutions in Yemen, according to Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Baseundwah.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Saleh Al-Batati in News
AL-MUKALLA, Feb. 29 — Two independent journalists from Hadramout governorate received death threats via SMS last Thursday.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, Feb. 29 — As the global community has grown more aware of the potential to substitute renewable energy sources for depleting oil resources, the Jatropha tree has become recognized as a productive and efficient producer of bio-diesel.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Fuad Mused in News
ABYAN, Feb. 29 — Clashes have continued between the Yemeni army and what is known as Ansar Al-Sharia (‘supporters of sharia’) in Abyan governorate, particularly in its capital, Zunjubar, the central battlefield and site of intermittent bloody clashes.
Published on 27 February 2012 by Yasser Ezzi in News
SANA’A — A sandstorm travelling from Saudi Arabia is expected to hit Yemen within the next 24 hours, the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority has warned.
Published on 27 February 2012 by Yemen Times Staff & Agencies in News
SANA’A — Despite a string of security incidents across the country, Hisham Sharaf, Minister of Oil and Minerals, is optimistic oil production will soon improve, providing much-needed support to Yemen’s badly damaged economy.
Published on 27 February 2012 by Yasser Ezzi in News
SANA’A — The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) alliance has confirmed its refusal to take part in Monday's inauguration ceremony for Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, describing it as “heresy” and an illegal act.
Published on 27 February 2012 by Yemen Times Staff in News
MUKALLA — Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for Saturday's car bomb attack in Mukalla, which left 26 dead and over 20 others wounded.
Published on 27 February 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
HAJJA — Bloody clashes have renewed between Salafi tribes and Houthi fighters in Hajja province, tribal sources have revealed.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA’A — There are conflicting reports about the ability of President Abdu Rabu Hadi to reconstruct the military and put an end to the ten-month division of Yemen's military. At the present moment, former President Saleh's relatives continue to run key military and security forces.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
SANA’A — After a number of unsuccessful efforts, the last two-week strike by Sana'a's street cleaners finally resulted in their demand for public employment being met.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A, Feb. 22 — Journalists and human rights activists have started planning to escalate efforts to free the imprisoned journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shayi', who has now been in jail for 18 months.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
ADEN, Feb 22 — Khaled Ba Madhaf, a leader and activist of Aden's Southern Movement ('Hirak') told the Yemen Times on Wednesday that the more the government in Sana’a and the international community neglects the southern cause, the greater the threat to national and international security they will present.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SANA’A, Feb. 22 — At a press conference held on the night of Yemen's early presidential election, Mohammed Al-Hakimi, chairman of the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum, said that voter turnout had far exceeded expectations.
Published on 19 February 2012 by Abd Al-Karim Al-Nahari in News
AL-BAIDA - Along with two of his escorts, Tariq Al-Dhahab, leader of Ansar Al-Sharia’a (supporters of Sharia) in Baidha governorate’s Rada’a district was killed last Thursday morning by his half-border, Hizam Al-Dhahab. The latter was also killed by Al-Qaeda militants only hours after he murdered his brother Tariq.
Published on 19 February 2012 by Hadba’ Al-Yazeedi in News
AL-MUKALLA — Last week, political figures in Hadramout called for federalization to be the model for Yemen’s new political system.
Published on 19 February 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
Published on 19 February 2012 by Fuad Mussed in News
ADEN – In a press statement released on Saturday, the Higher Council for the Peaceful Southern Movement has called for civil disobedience on February 21 to prevent people from voting in south Yemen.
Published on 19 February 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A — The family of Yahia Al-Dheeb, the first soldier to defect from President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s army last year and who was kidnapped on Saturday, has appealed to the US ambassador in Sana’a as their final hope.
Published on 19 February 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA’A — Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi used to be known as a silent man who never objected to, let alone disobeyed, any of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s orders.
Published on 16 February 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA’A – With a renewal of clashes between the two sides, the peace agreement signed one week ago between the Houthis and the Islah Party has failed.
Published on 16 February 2012 by Anas Rawi in News
SANA’A – For the first time, ordinary Yemenis will be able to monitor the country’s elections as they go to the polls on February 21.
Published on 16 February 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A — Millions of Yemenis, along with the international community, are closely watching the country’s controversial presidential election, which is now less than a week away.
Published on 16 February 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA’A — Al-Qaeda movement poses the biggest challenge and threat to Yemen in the current period, according to experts.
Published on 16 February 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A — Yemen has been losing $ 17.5 million every day since Thursday, February 9 when workers at the newly-established Petromasila National Company went on strike to demand severance payment from the previous foreign operator, Canadian Nexen.
Published on 13 February 2012 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ — Taiz marked one year of the Yemeni revolution on Friday and Saturday – a year after daily protests began on Feb. 11, 2011.
Published on 13 February 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
SA’ADA — Sheikh Saleh Habra, spokesman for the Houthis, confirmed that the group has reached a peace agreement with the Islah party in Hajja governorate.
Published on 13 February 2012 by Abdul-Kareem Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR – Five prisoners were killed and three others were left wounded after policemen foiled a large-scale escape attempt by prisoners from Dhamar city’s central prison last Wednesday and Thursday. It was the third such attempt at the prison over the past two months.
Published on 13 February 2012 by Fuad Mussed in News
ADEN – Two persons were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday in Dhala’a governorate when fighting broke out between gunmen from the Southern Movement (Alhirak Aljanobi) and soldiers tasked with guarding ballot centers.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
SANA’A, Jan. 8 – At least 2,000 street cleaners in Sana’a are on their third day of strike after being promised that their demands would be met last month.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Abdulkareem Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR, Feb. 7 – Islamic scholars in Dhamar are calling for the cost of dowries and weddings to be reduced so that young, unemployed men and those from poorer families can afford to marry.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA’A, Feb. 8 – An estimated 39 people have been killed and many more injured in the latest round of clashes between Houthis and Salafis in Hajjah.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SANA'A, Feb. 8 – The lives of four Yemeni journalists are in jeopardy after a group of Islamic clerics issued a fatwa (religious statement) against them describing them as apostates.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SANA’A, Feb. 8 – President to be- Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s presidential campaign was launched at the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum on Feb. 8, 2012, in preparation for elections later this month.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A, Feb. 8 – Hooria Mashour, Minister of Human Rights in the interim government, has promised to close Yemen’s private and secret jails run by officials and tribal sheikhs.
Alarming number of explosives in AdenPublished on 6 February 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A – Seven displaced children were injured after playing with an explosive device in Aden on Wednesday. Around 17,000 explosive remnants of war and land mines were removed from Abyan since June 2011, according to The Yemen Mine Action Committee (YEMAC) in Aden.
Published on 6 February 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A - The three-month long armed sectarian conflict in north Yemen’s Sa’ada and Hajja has caused a further displacement of local citizens, compounding that caused by six rounds of war between the Houthis and the government between 2004 and 2010.
Published on 6 February 2012 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ – Hundreds of armed men loyal to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh surrounded state-backed Al-Thawra and Al-Jomhoriya newspapers, angry at recent changes in the way the papers report the news.
Published on 6 February 2012 by Abdulkarim Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR - prisoner involved in plotting the assassination of Dhamar deputy governor Abdulkarim Dhafan last December was smuggled out of prison last Wednesday in an escape that some believe was aided by prison guards.
Published on 2 February 2012 by Fuad Mussed in News
ADEN, Feb, 1 — An unidentified armed group of men intercepted the Saudi Deputy Consul in Aden, Abdullah Al-Khaledi, as he traveled home from work on Monday.
Published on 2 February 2012 by Amira Al-Arasi in News
SANA’A, Feb. 1 — A three-day training session for 100 English teachers in rural areas concluded its activities on Monday in Sana’a. Speaking about future plans for the nation, Yemen's Deputy Minister of Education said, “The ministry will be in need of 12,000 new English teachers nationwide.”
Published on 2 February 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
ABYAN, Feb. 1 — Many Yemenis, and especially those in Abyan governorate, are blaming the new government for a loss of sovereignty after a US drone strike killed 11 Al-Qaeda members on Yemeni soil on Monday.
Published on 2 February 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A, Feb. 1 — A recent report carried out by the Abaad Center for Studies and Research has warned of the potential for certain Yemeni cities to fall to Al-Qaeda.
Published on 2 February 2012 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ, Feb. 1 — People in Taiz have become concerned since armed figures started appearing in the city over the last couple days. Some roads were also closed during this time.
Published on 30 January 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
SANA’A – A two-day workshop intended to help women obtain their political rights during the nation’s transitional period was held on Sunday in Sana’a.
Published on 30 January 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA’A – Dozens of Political Security Organization (PSO) soldiers and officers commenced a 4-hour strike on Sunday, with demands for administrative and economic reforms.
Published on 30 January 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A – President Ali Abdullah Saleh finally arrived in the US for short-term private medical treatment on Saturday night, according to the Republic of Yemen Foreign Press Office. Saleh, along with a number of family members, left to Oman last Sunday, on route to the United States.
Published on 30 January 2012 by Imad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ — Repeated clashes erupted in Taiz between the Republican Guards and locals over land disputes.
Published on 30 January 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A — The Houthis in the north of Yemen and the secessionist Southern Movement in the south announced plans to boycott the presidential elections set for February 21.
Published on 26 January 2012 by Yemen Times Staff in News
ADEN – Groups of armed men entered a vaccine storehouse belonging to the National Immunization Program (NIP) in Sira, Aden, on Monday.
Published on 26 January 2012 by Nadia Haddash in News
SANA’A – Doctors, medics and employees at state-run Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sana’a commenced a strike on Tuesday, and are demanding administration changes and an end to corruption.
Published on 26 January 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANAA — The Number of the malnourished children of those under the age of five grown as the result of 2011 unrest to be 750,000 children according to the UNFCF. 500,000 of them are at the risk of Dying or at the risk of physical or mental disability as a result of malnutrition.
Published on 26 January 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SA’ADA — At least 15 Houthis were killed and a further eight were taken as hostages in clashes between Houthis and Islah Party-supported Hajoor tribesmen, according to tribal sources in Kasher district, Hajja.
Published on 26 January 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SANA’A — Since Saleh’s departure for Oman on the evening of January 22, politicians from both sides of the political spectrum have expressed that political tensions have eased – both within Saleh’s General People’s Congress party, and between the GPC and opposition parties.
Published on 23 January 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, Jan. 22 – Gert Danielsen, a Norwegian United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) worker, taken hostage last Sunday by tribesmen from Marib has not been released yet, despite efforts by local mediators.
Published on 23 January 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
SANA’A, Jan. 21st – A new initiative called “Generation of Peace,” aimed at fostering understanding between 1000 youths from different backgrounds, was launched on Sunday.
Published on 23 January 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
SANA’A, Jan. 22 — Locals in Sana’a have been complaining that the city’s regular power cuts are forcing them to buy water as the national water grid has become useless.
Published on 23 January 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A, Jan. 22 — President Ali Abdullah Saleh has left Yemen On Sunday to Oman after giving a farewell speech on Yemen TV.
Rada’ locals fear American air strikesPublished on 30 November -1 by Sadeq Al-Wasabi in News
AL-BAIDA, Jan. 22 — Residents of Rada’, taken over by Al-Qaeda militants last week, expressed their concerns that the area could become a target for American air strikes.
Published on 19 January 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
SANA’A – Vice President Abdo Rabo Mansour Hadi denied any possible delay of next month’s presidential elections, due to take place on February 21.
Published on 19 January 2012 by Mohamed Bin Sallam in News
SA’ADA – Reports of 45 deaths in Sa’ada were denied yesterday as Houthi rebels in the north of Yemen accused Saudi Arabia of provoking conflict between Yemen’s Salafis and the country’s Shiites.
Published on 19 January 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A – The Yemeni parliament postponed for the third time its vote on Ali Abdullah Saleh’s immunity law, after it was approved by the cabinet last month.
Published on 19 January 2012 by Abdulkareem Al-Nahari in News
Al-BAIDA — Some 365 prisoners in Al-Baida governorate’s Rada’ district were freed on Monday by a group believed to be Al-Qaeda affiliates.
Published on 19 January 2012 by Fuad Mussed in News
ABYAN — Around 2,500 displaced people from Abyan governorate, south Yemen, have returned home to Zunjubar in a collective march of vehicles.
Published on 16 January 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, Jan. 15 — Tribesmen from Marib's Ubaida tribe kidnapped a Norwegian United Nations worker near the premises of Sana'a's United Nations Development Program (UNDP) offices on Sunday morning.
Published on 16 January 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A, Jan. 15 — The Military Committee’s plan to eradicate all armed manifestations in Sana'a and Taiz governorates has failed.
Published on 16 January 2012 by Yemen Times Staff in News
ADEN, Jan. 15 – The Aden Free Zone Authority closed its offices in the city following a sit-in organized by protesting security officers and soldiers demanding plots of land on which to build their own houses.
Published on 16 January 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
SANA’A, Jan. 15 — At least 80 militants believed to be from Al-Qaeda entered Rada’, the capital of Al-Baidah, 170 km south-east the capital Sana’a, on Saturday, according to Yahiya Al-Nusairi, head of the governorate’s Architecture Office.
Published on 30 November -1 by Imad Al-Sakkaf in News
TAIZ, Jan. 15 — Officials from two cement plants in Hodeida and Amran took money from a cement plant in Taiz to cover their companies’ financial obligations to the Tax Authority and the Ministry of Finance, according to an official document released by the Al-Barh Cement factory in Taiz.
Published on 12 January 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
Sana’a, Jan. 7 – More than 2,000 street cleaners went on a strike from last Tuesday to Thursday to demand their rights.
Published on 12 January 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
SANA’A, Jan. 8 _ Three pedestrians were injured in gunfire exchange on Sunday afternoon in Hayel Street. One of the injured received a bullet in the chest and is reported to be in a critical condition.
Published on 12 January 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANAA, Jan. 6 – Sana’a Police Patrolmen’s demands to officially oust their director remain on hold as they were told by the Interior Minister on Wednesday that this change requires a presidential decree, not possible until after presidential elections in Feb, 21, 2012.
Published on 12 January 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A, Jan. 7 – Taxi drivers protested on Friday in front of the Yemeni Oil Company's main office on Sixty Meters Road. Their demand was twofold: that the market be provided with fuel, and for fuel prices to be reduced. The company told the Yemen times that they do not have authority to control fuel prices, and that it is the responsibility of the cabinet. “ Our job is to distribute fuel and has nothing to do with raising prices; the cabinet determines oil subsidies and the amount of imports, which the government has to cover.
Published on 12 January 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A, Jan. 8 – The United Nation Human Rights chief declared on Friday that giving Saleh amnesty is a violation to Yemen’s international Human Rights obligation.
Published on 12 January 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A, Jan. 8 — For more than three decades, the state-run newspapers, TV channels and radio stations were dedicated to promoting President Saleh and his regime.
Published on 5 January 2012 by Ramzy Alawi in News
Aden, Jan 4- The director of state-run Central Organization for Control and Auditing dismissed on Wednesday the chairman of Aden’s branch after his armed men shot an employee down.
Published on 5 January 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A, Jan. 4— The national unity government approved a controversial 'immunity bill' on Tuesday. The bill is intended to grant immunity from prosecution to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh and members of his inner circle.
Published on 5 January 2012 by Abdulkarim Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR, Jan 4 – The Parliament approved in its session on Jan 2, 2012 a second loan for the 254 km Dhamar–Hodeidah intercity road which has been faltering since 1981. The loan was provided by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development at USD 42 million as an additional loan to the USD 50 million in 2003.
Published on 5 January 2012 by Nadia Hadash in News
SANA’A, Jan. 4 — The Yemeni government has approved on Tuesday a new weekend for all Yemenis. Now Friday and Saturday will be days off, starting from next February.
Published on 5 January 2012 by Yemen Times Staff in News
“The revolution has moved from squares to institutions after the political settlement failed to realize the revolutionary goals of ousting corrupt officials,” said Mushel Mohamed,a protester in Taiz.
Published on 2 January 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
A group of activists and revolutionaries with different political affiliations established the Revolution Salvation Front last Thursday.
Published on 2 January 2012 by Ibtisam Al-Aseery in News
To raise awareness about violence against women, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) held a 16-day campaign to combat violence against women in Basateen, Aden, South Yemen, last month.
Published on 2 January 2012 by Ali Saeed in News
A Yemeni journalist accused of being a “media man” for Al-Qaeda, but whom human rights activists say was wrongly accused, remains in prison. He has been held behind bars longer than any other journalist in Yemen.
Published on 2 January 2012 by Abdulkareem Al-Nahari in News
Four prisoners were killed and five injured, two of which in critical conditions as the prisoners tried to break free from Dhamar Central Prison on Saturday afternoon Dec. 31, 2011. The prison security which is in charge of 755 prisoners in the overcrowded establishment managed to prevent the prisoners from fleeing despite them breaking through the internal prison gate.
Published on 2 January 2012 by Yemen Times Staff in News
Dr. Jamaladdin Benomar also known as Jamal Benomar was selected by majority of Yemen Times readers as Yemen Times Person of the Year 2011.
Published on 2 January 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
SANA’A, January 1– The Yemeni Society for Consumer Protection (YSCP) has warned women from buying certain cosmetics that contain a high level of lead.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Yemen Times Staff in News
ADEN — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has signed a contract to begin construction on 300 new shelters at Lahj Governorate’s Kharaz Camp, where close to 3,000 Somali refugees currently live in tents.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A — Damaged transmission towers behind Yemen’s ongoing power cuts cannot be repaired until military units evacuate their vicinity, an official at the Ministry of Electricity has told the Yemen Times.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SANA’A – Following loudly-voiced criticisms and much deliberation, parliament eventually unanimously endorsed Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basundwa’s government plan on Wednesday.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Abdul-Kareem Al-Nahari in News
DHAMAR — The Monitoring Center for the Study of Earthquakes and Volcanoes has reported the presence of light volcanic activity on one of the unpopulated islands of ‘Jabal Al-Zubair’ archipelago, 120 km northwest of Hodeida Governorate.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Anas Rawi in News
ABYAN - Measles has claimed the lives of over 32 children in Lawder, in the southern Yemeni governorate of Abyan, since September, according to doctors.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A - A new row between Houthi supporters and Islah loyalists left 20 people injured in Sana’a’s Change Square early on Wednesday morning, according to eyewitnesses.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
TAIZ - Um Alez Bin Abd Al-Sallam, a woman from Taiz, has bought a pair of shoes for USD 15,000. The owner of the shoes was wearing them when he died - and after having marched over 250 kilometers by foot, over the course of five days and from Taiz to Sana'a, during what was called the “Life March.”
Published on 28 December 2011 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A, Dec. 25 - Tension has returned to Sana’a, after a five-day ‘Life March’ from Taiz to the Yemeni capital protesting Saleh’s GCC-sponsored immunity from prosecution ended in the death of at least 13 protesters on Saturday.
Published on 26 December 2011 by Ali Saeed in News
Amid high security and power cuts, Yemen’s parliament resumed its activities on Saturday with all political parties present, after a 11-month boycott by the traditional opposition since the beginning of the uprisings last February.
Published on 26 December 2011 by Ali Saeed in News
The parliament of Yemen has voted by consensus to close nominations for early presidential election, scheduled to take place on 21 February 2012. Vice President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi is the sole candidate in line with the GCC power transition plan and its implementation mechanism.
Published on 22 December 2011 by Abdulkareem Al-Nahari in News
A hashish packing workshop was exposed after an explosion on Friday morning on the southern ring road in Dhamar (100km to the south of Sana'a).
Published on 22 December 2011 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
Anti-regime protesters are marching on foot from Taiz to Sana’a, calling for Ali Abdullah Saleh to be prosecuted.
Published on 22 December 2011 by Ali Saeed in News
Yemen's cabinet has approved its two-year public program, expected to be endorsed by parliament, in line with the Gulf power transition plan signed in Riyadh late November.
Published on 24 December 2011 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A, Dec. 18 – Yemen's Public Electricity Corporation has promised to solve prolonged electricity problems within 7-10 days.
Published on 19 December 2011 by Ali Saeed in News
A group of unknown armed men blew up an improvised explosive device in Ma’br city, Dhamar governorate on Thursday morning.
Published on 22 December 2011 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
Published on 19 December 2011 by Yemen Times Staff in News
Across Yemen, thirty-five female employees for the Supreme Committee for Elections and Referendum (SCER) have started training in preparation for the presidential elections on Feb. 21, 2012.
Published on 19 December 2011 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
The roadmap for removing the military from urban centers is slowly being implemented by the new military committee. However, armed clashes in Hasaba north of Sana’a remain a challenge.
Published on 6 February 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf & Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
Published on 6 February 2012 by SABA & Xinhua News Agencies in News
Published on 6 February 2012 by Mohammed bin Sallam in News
Published on 6 February 2012 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
SA’ADA, Dec. 14 — In a meeting with United Nations envoy Jamal Benomar on Tuesday, Houthi leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi said that Sa'ada-based Houthis are willing to become involved in political discussions with the new government and engage in a national dialogue.
Published on 31 December 2011 by Marwa Najmaldeen in News
SANA’A — Yemeni singer Najeeb Al-Mukbeli, 26, contesting at the third season of Gulf Star has qualified for finals of the Gulf top music talent music program after passing all previous stages with the highest votes as well as the decision of the contest judges.
Published on 31 December 2011 by Yemen Times Staff in News
DHAMAR — Food insecurity is reaching alarming rates in Yemen. The 2011 Humanitarian Response Plan indicated that at least 2.7 million Yemenis are food insecure. While agriculture production is decreasing, according to state reports issued at the end of 2010, qat and tobacco farming have increased by 14 percent and 7 percent respectively.
Published on 31 December 2011 by Yemen Times Staff in News
BEIRUT — Around half of Yemeni women get married at a very young age, with an average of just 15 years. Human Rights Watch issued a report on Yemen’s child brides today Dec. 8, 2011; “How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?: Child Marriage in Yemen.”
Published on 31 December 2011 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA'A — Continuing power outages in Sana'a and other governorates continue to arouse the anger of Yemeni citizens.
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SANA’A — A new republican decree released Wednesday evening Dec. 7, 2011 by the Prime Minister, Mohamed Salem Basundwa and Vice President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi revealed the structure of the new reconciliation government.
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Yemen has taken an dip on Transparency International's corruption scale, going from 146 to 164th place on the organization's annual list.
Published on 19 December 2011 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
The Ministry of Trade and Industry has come up with a program to deal with the economic crisis Yemen has gone through over the last ten months. According to Minister of Trade Hisham Sharaf, an Emergency Economic Recovery Program has been tentatively approved.
Published on 19 December 2011 by Emad Al-Saqqaf in News
A ceasefire agreement has failed to stop the bloody violence in Taiz as clashes and shelling continue and the body count carries on rising.
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The Houthis in Sa’ada have partially lifted their 46-day blockade on Damaj, a local has told the Yemen Times.
Published on 19 December 2011 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
The General People’s Congress (GPC) has delegated both Honorary President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his deputy, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to nominate ministers for the General People’s Congress’ share of the National Unity Government.
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SANA’A Nov. 26 — For Mohammad Al-Tashi, 26, English has become more interesting with an educational series on Radio Shabab.
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HODEIDA, Nov. 27 — Anti-regime protesters in Hodeida have been condemning the smuggling of weapons from the city’s harbor to the capital of Sana’a.
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SAADA, Nov 27 — Fierce, bloody confrontations took place on Saturday from 11:15am to 8:00pm between Houthis and a Salafi group in Damaj in the Sa’ada governorate of north Yemen. As a result, 24 Salafi students were killed and 60 others left injured, according to a local source in Damaj.
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SANAA, Nov. 27 — Honorary President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to Yemen on November 26 despite media reports that he would stay permanently in Saudi Arabia after signing a deal to transfer power to his deputy last week.
Published on 19 December 2011 by Yemen Times Staff in News
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) initiative, agreeing to hand over power after 33 years.
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SAADA, Nov 20 – Besieged by Shiite Houthi rebels for over a month, locals in the northern town of Damaj, home to Salafi school Dar Al-Hadeeth, say that not only are they still cut off from food and medicine supplies, but that snipers are now firing at residents from surrounding mountain ranges.
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HODEIDA, Nov. 18 – Thousands of protestors marched in the streets of Hodeida city on Wednesday condemning the attacks against civilians in Taiz and demanding the prosecution of Saleh.
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SANA’A, Nov. 20 – Ten pirates were sentenced to 10 years each in jail by a Yemeni criminal court in Al-Mukala, Hadramout governorate.
Published on 13 February 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
The news that parliament's sessions reconvened has provoked controversy among MPs and political activists.
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SANA’A, Nov. 20 — The UN Security Council has delayed its review of resolution 2014 by another week, despite continued violence since it was issued on 21 November.
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SANA’A, Nov 20 — More than 400 troops marched through Change Square on Saturday evening shouting “the butcher must stand trial” after defecting from the Yemeni military.
Published on 21 November 2011 by Amira Al-Arasi in News
The Yemen army and armed opposition recruit underage soldiers according to SEYAJ, a Yemeni organization for the protection of children.
Published on 21 November 2011 by Yemen Times Staff in News
Conflict and killing has not stopped in Yemen since the UN resolution 2014.
Published on 21 November 2011 by Nadia Al-Sakkaf in News
The Yemeni army has been fighting for control of Abyan, in the south of the country, since March this year but according to locals, the AQAP militants seem to be winning.
Published on 21 November 2011 by Malak Shaher in News
Arguments over electricity poles threaten lives
Published on 21 November 2011 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
Embattled president Ali Abdullah Saleh has said he will hand over power “within 90 days” despite international pressure and continuous protests demanding his immediate departure.
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SANAA, Oct. 30 — Anti-government protesters and activists marched on Sunday safely, demanding the regime release political detainees and kidnapped protesters who were abducted in recent marches.
Published on 20 March 2012 by Malak Shaher in News
SANA’A, Oct. 30 — The number of Yemeni citizens applying for a chance to emigrate to the United States has so far been low, according to the US embassy in Sana'a.
Published on 20 March 2012 by Sadeq Al-Wesabi in News
SANA’A, Oct. 30 — A group of politicians, diplomats, academicians, businessmen and pro-democracy revolutionaries launched the Democratic Awakening Movement in Sana’a last Sunday.
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Sana’a, Oct. 30 — “The sounds of gunfire and shelling have become part of the daily lives of Yemenis,” according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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SANAA, Oct.26 — Loud explosions were heard in the capital following Tuesday’s announcement of a truce between the conflicting parties.
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SANA’A, Oct 26 — The governments of Syria and Yemen have confirmed that eight Syrian technicians died when a military cargo plane crashed on Tuesday.
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TAIZ, Oct. 25 — Taiz witnessed heavy shelling in the ongoing conflict between the Republican Guard and the armed opposition throughout Tuesday, starting from the early hours of the morning. Eight people died, including a child and two women, while 25 received injuries.
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SANA’A, Oct. 26 — Women burned their veils as they called on Yemeni tribes to protect them from attacks by the regime yesterday.
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SANA’A, Oct. 26 — Three men were killed on Wednesday morning when stray shells fell in the old city of Sana’a. The shelling came from the Al-Hasaba area, which has become a conflict zone since the Al-Ahmar tribal leaders, who live in the area, sided with protestors trying to oust President Saleh’s regime.
Published on 19 April 2012 by Shatha Al-Harazi in News
SANA’A, Oct 26 — Yemen’s security forces used an unknown substance, mixed with water, to disperse protesters in Sana’a on Tuesday morning. The protesters were attempting to cross the red lines off Change Square and in front of Sana’a University, according to eyewitnesses.