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MWF launches training project for female students at Media Colleges
The Media Women Forum (MWF), in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), will launch a project for training female students at the Media Colleges in main cities (Sana'a- Aden- Taiz- Al-Hodeida), scheduled to run from March 1, 2008 to January 1, 2009. The project aims to increase the efficiency of practical performance in the media field by training future female media workers and improving their professional, legal, structural and juristic skills to ensure equal rights and distinguished participation, produce high-level Yemeni journalism and raise their competency level, as well as spread democracy and human rights values.
The project includes eight training courses on field media work requirements through comprehensive training methodologies prepared by local and Arab qualified trainers. In addition, two workshops will be conducted, the first on law and journalism and the second on how to raise the position of media and media curricula. The MWF will conduct interviews with media institutions concerning project goals to create real training opportunities for the trainees with the objective of bridging the gap between theory and practice.
This project is considered the first of its kind that targets (third and fourth level) female students at Media Colleges from different specializations. Before carrying out the project, profession needs and potential impediments that would hinder effective performance of female media workers in Yemeni journalism will be identified. This will be done via questionnaires to be filled out during field visits. The project is also considered the second of its kind to be implemented by the MWF, in cooperation with NED. The previous project targeted female media workers in different official, party and national media organizations in Yemen.
Mud-house builders
establish association
Two hundred mud house builders held last week in Tarim the first “Association of Mud Architecture Houses Builders” meeting, which aims at coordinating efforts for maintaining adobe-built houses in Tarim.
Ali Khamis Sabih, head of Development and Planning in Tarim's local council, lauded the cultural and architectural heritage of the city and called for its preservation.
The constituent group appointed 11 members to be the association's administrative staff, headed by Ashoor Bashamkihah. The establishment announcement is part of other procedures taken by the local council to enroll the city in a competition with forty cities for luring the German-Yemen program for preservation and Rehabilitation. The program's funding is crucial in preserving the crumbling remains of Al-Kaff Palaces in Tarim.
Yemen, France discuss
mutual military cooperation
The commander of French Forces stationed in the Indian Ocean, Admiral Giran Valan, and an accompanying delegation met on Monday Staff General Ali Qassim Talib, Deputy Chief of Yemen's General Staff. They held talks on the mutual military cooperation between the two countries.
During the talks, Talib praised the growing bilateral relations between the two countries' armies, especially in the fields of technical and training cooperation, the fight against piracy, smuggling and terrorism so as to enhance security and stability of the region, and protecting the corridors of international navigation in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the African Horn.
For his part, the French naval commander hailed the Yemeni-French relations, stressing the importance of strengthening cooperation between the two armies and exchanging military and security expertise in fighting terrorism.
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