SANA’A — The communication committee met on Sunday, May 19th with representatives of the Friends of Yemen Conference in order to inform them about the latest developments regarding the targeted participants of the upcoming national dialogue.
SANA’A — Abaad Studies and Research Centre, a Sana’a-based think-tank, organized a conference from May 12-13 in which senior Yemeni researchers participated with the aim of helping the government set strategic goals and make political decisions.
Working papers were presented by a number of researchers, scholars, politicians and legislators from various academic institutions.
To help youth resolve existing conflicts and reduce the likelihood of future unrest during Yemen’s two-year transitional period, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last month hosted the Peace Generation Project in Sana'a.
The project, attended by over 200 young men and women, is part of USAID’s Community Livelihood Program (CLP).
Despite the revolution which exploded last year in Yemen with demands for human rights and opportunities, thousands of Yemenis still work in slave-like conditions with little hope of escape.
Surviving in Yemen's harsh economy with limited choices has forced countless Yemenis to take work that affords them little social mobility, and leaves them drowning in debt.
ADEN — The governor of Aden, Waheed Rasheed, said that local authorities will use security forces to open roadblocks in Al-Mula and Al-Mansoura streets. Offenders will be referred to General Prosecution in case efforts at negotiating fail.
He added during a press conference held in Aden on Wednesday that they have handled the security situation with patience and self-restraint over the last year, in which the country witnessed unprecedented turbulence.
HODEIDA — Dengue fever has been spreading among the poorest social classes in Hodeida and Harad located on the western coasts of Yemen.
When dengue fever had spread in the Central Prison, it caused dozens of patients. Then, it swept the African refugee camp in Harad of Hajja governorate.
The symptoms of Dengue Fever are sudden fever and severe cramps in the muscles. These symptoms appear within five-eight days after an infected mosquito bite. After four-seven days a rash starts to appear causing itching all over the body.
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.
The first voluntary and developmental project was financed by Al-Awan Development Foundation, a Mukalla-based charity, in cooperation with Right Start Foundation International.
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.
Yemen’s Prime Minister, Mohammed Salem Basindawa, said in a private sector conference on Saturday that he received an official memorandum which nominated the international consultants. Mahathir Mohammed topped the list.
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.
HAJJA — Residents of Bani Jamal, a village in Qofl Shamr area, Hajja governorate, have been suffering from dengue fever for the past month.
Thus far, seven people have died, a young girl among them, according to the Hajja Public Health Office (PHO).
Ahmed Jobran Al-Faqi, the father of a girl who suffers from dengue fever in Qofl Shamr, said that the symptoms of his daughter's illness are headache, backache, neck pain, high temperature and sometimes she falls unconscious for several hours.
SANA'A — The Yemeni Interior Ministry has highlighted humanitarian abuses that African refugees undergo at various smuggling points along the Saudi-Yemeni border.
At these border crossings, particularly in Harad city, the African stowaways to Saudi Arabia have become easy prey for human trafficking gangs.
The gangs torture the refugees and make them call their relatives living in Saudi Arabia or in any other country to send them money.
Published on 7 May 2012 in News
Mohammed Al-Samei (author)
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.
“Ansar Al-Sharia attacked the people’s committees several times but they were stopped,” he added.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) began working in Yemen in the early ‘70s with the aim of improving the welfare of Yemenis and alleviating poverty through better reproductive health, and including population and gender issues in development planning.
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.
Saleh Habra, a leading figure in the Shiite Houthis, asked the Yemen Times in a statement, “Why would we want a political dialogue as long as it was imposed on us by the US and other countries by force?
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.
Transitional justice was applied in some countries such as Morocco, South Africa, and Indonesia in the wake of sectarian, ethnic or political conflicts. Through this law, it is hoped that conflicting sides will reach a settlement in a period of political shift.
HODEIDA — Dengue fever infection increased in Al-Lohaia district, overlooking the Red Sea, in the south-west of the coastal governorate of Hodeida.
Dengue fever is a virus which infects humans, causing high temperature, headache, and pain in the joints and muscles. Sometimes the virus can cause internal bleeding.
Zainab, a young woman in her 20s, lives in Ibb governorate with her conservative family. She decided to visit one of her relatives in Taiz. After a tedious journey, she arrived at a taxi station at 7pm and was shocked when a man wearing a traffic police uniform started to harass her.
She said the man kept following her, and when she shouted at him with the aim of drawing the attention of passers-by, he accused her of indecent acts and arrested her.
Published on 26 April 2012 in News
Muaad Al-Maqtari (author)
SANA’A, April 25 — The World Health Organization (WHO) has started to distribute necessary vaccines in Yemen to stop six lethal diseases.
The vaccines aimed at eradicating whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae, poliomyelitis and diphtheria.
"Yemen has all the new vaccines from WHO to protect children against six lethal diseases," said Dr. Alaa Al-Deen Al-Alwan, Regional Director of WHO in the Middle East.
After they succeeding in bringing down the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, protesters in squares across the country stress the dire need for reorganizing the army, considering it a top priority.
