SANA’A: A recent report published by the Seyaj Organization of Childhood Protection confirmed earlier findings from children’s agencies such as UNICEF that children in Yemen were bearing the brunt of the ongoing crisis, caught between a catastrophic humanitarian situation and military conflict. As often in such classic unrest, armed militias are using people’s financial precariousness [...]
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SANA’A: Yemen security sources at the port of Hodaida, west of the capital, Sana’a, revealed to Bikyamasr.com that following reports from the Yemeni Intelligence Services, the country’s seaport authorities had intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with weapons they believed was to be delivered to the al-Houthis fighters. Al-Houthis, a group of Shia dissidents, who for [...]
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SANA’A: Official Yemen government sources in Aden announced on Tuesday afternoon that a man who was planting a bomb inside a polling station in the southern seaport city accidentally detonated the device, killing himself insistently in the blast. This is the second time this week that a direct attack against the presidential elections was carried [...]
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SANA’A: Yemen’s Sheikh Hameed al-Ahmar announced on Monday that he was supporting the creation of a civil state in Yemen, stressing that the tribes understood the need for the country to move away from its feudal system to embrace democracy. The sheikh, whose brother is prominent tribal leader of the Hasheed confederation of tribes, Sheikh [...]
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SANA’A: Although only a few remain in the country, Yemen’s Jewish population has expressed their concern over the departure from power of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Community leader Rabbi Yahia Youssef Mussa told Bikyamasr.com that Saleh had over his three decades in power and had always been “kind and compassionate” towards the community, adding that [...]
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Sana’a (dpa) – Outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh called on the people of Yemen to vote the upcoming presidential elections to protect “constitutional legitimacy,” in an editorial published on Monday. “There is no doubt that our country is now living a very important historic stage after overcoming the destructive chaos, which affected several Arab countries,” [...]
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SANA’A: Sources in Washington told Bikyamasr.com that several high-ranking officials had conveyed to Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh their wishes to postpone his return to the country until after the presidential elections, for fear the “prodigal son” would ignite already brewing feuds and tensions. “The situation in Yemen is still very volatile and the administration [...]
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SANA’A: Senior foreign diplomats based in Yemen told Bikyamasr.com that they feared “groups” would attempt to interfere with the coming presidential elections, putting in jeopardy the plan to transition the country away from an armed conflict. Foreign powers have, since the beginning of Yemen’s uprising, expressed their concerns over the country’s descent into chaos. Although [...]
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SANA’A: Yemen’s Ansar al-Sharia, a group of Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda, the well-known terror group, announced on Sunday that they had executed three men they accused of working for the United States. The group, which has been openly operating in Yemen since the beginning last year of the popular uprising, used to its advantage [...]
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SANA’A: Yemen’s Sheikh Hameed al-Ahmar’s name has come to be associated again with scandal, which could potentially send shockwaves not only through the Yemeni community, but across European Union institutions. Sheikh al-Ahmar, who is one of Yemen’s wealthiest businessmen, with the Times having estimated his personal fortune to several tens of billions of dollars, also [...]
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Sana’a (dpa) – At least 16 people were injured when separatists attacked pro-reform activists in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, a local news website reported Sunday. Hundreds from the Southern Movement, which is pushing for the separation of southern Yemen, late Saturday torched tents pitched by the activists in the Freedom Square in Aden, [...]
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SANA’A: Yemen’s ministry of defense told the Saba news agency on Saturday that the explosions reported by many concerned residents of the capital, Sana’a, were the result of training exercises and “nothing more.” Other sources in Yemen and countless eyewitness reports told of another story, alleging that clashes between the regime’s loyalists and defected General [...]
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SANA’A: Defected Yemeni General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a once former ally and staunch defender of the regime who switched his allegiance from President Ali Abdullah Saleh to the revolution in March last year, dodged another assassination attempt in the country. The general, who swore then to defend the revolutionaries, pledging to act as a shield [...]
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Sana’a (dpa) – The European Union is to provide 7 million euros (9.2 million dollars) for supporting presidential elections in Yemen that are set for February 21, the bloc’s officials said Saturday. “The elections will provide an opportunity for the Yemeni people to vote for a new Yemen and to express their support to the [...]
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SANA’A: Yemen’s capital Sana’a is slowly disappearing under a mounting amount of rubbish as street cleaners have warned they would not return to work until their demands are met. This is the second time this year that the Union is striking, urging the government to legalize the position of hundreds of street cleaners, who until [...]
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SANA’A: In country where the legal system often fails to serve its purpose and favors the rich and powerful, tribal leaders, statesmen and politicians have for years handed down justice themselves by throwing men, women and children in their own private jails, depriving victims of any possible legal representation or chance of a fair trial. [...]
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SANA’A: Al-Haraq, the Yemeni southern secessionist movement, put its threats into action on Friday when a group of its loyalists stormed a polling station in the southern district of Almasimir, near the sea port city of Aden. The group, which resumed its political activities following a breakdown in security and the government’s inability to suppress [...]
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SANA’A: As Yemen is bracing itself for the return of President Ali Abdullah Saleh ahead of the country’s presidential elections, which should confirm the rise to power of Vice-President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi after a year of popular uprising and bloodshed, further clashes in the country’s southern territories are reminding officials that the threat of [...]
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SANA’A: Yemen officials confirmed on Friday that three Saudi Arabia nationals had been kidnapped by al-Houthis fighters while crossing the Yemeni northern province of al-Jawf, which sits on the Yemeni-Saudi border. The province, which has been under the control of Salafists, a group of Sunni ultra-conservatives, has slowly come under the control of the Shia [...]
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CAIRO: Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, currently in the United States receiving medical treatment, will reportedly leave the US on February 18, the Mare Press news website reported on Friday. Citing official sources, the site said that Saleh is to head to an unknown location, although he has recently said he intends to return to [...]
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