Press Review [Archives:1998/51/Press Review]

AL SAHWA
Sanaa, weekly 17/12/98 
(Yemeni Congregation for Reform – Islah)   Main Headlines
-The government is still refusing to pay financial assistance to the 800 students who won scholarships abroad.
-A number of Sanaa University professors and students have denounced the Aden University decision banning female students from wearing veils in the Medicine College.
-The U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has repatriated from Aden 1,500 Somali refugees to their homeland over the past 11 months, as part of its voluntary repatriation program.
-70,000 cases of malaria were treated in Taiz since the initiation of the national campaign to combat that disease.

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