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Democratic School demands to agree on SCER |  The Democratic School has expressed disappointment over failing to form the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum in Yemen despite the lack of time to prepare for the upcoming parliamentary ...
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Saleh declares ending of Saada war |  President Ali Abdullah Saleh has declared in a brief speech that the intermittent war between the Yemen's army and al-Houthi rebels in the north of the ...
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British ambassador meets Yemen's opposition |  The British ambassador to Yemen Tim Torlot has discussed with the Yemeni main opposition parties in Taiz province the British support to a number of projects in fields of health , women development, combating ...
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U.S. State Department's 2008 repot on Yemen |  Yemen is a republic headed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country since 1978. In September 2006 citizens re-elected President Saleh to another seven-year term in a generally open and competitive election, characterized by multiple problems with the voting process and use of state ...
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Al-Houthi rebels kill senior official in al-Jawf |  The secretary general of al-Jawf province Abdul-Wahab al-Dhamin along with two escorts were killed by al-Houthi rebels on Wednesday evening following fierce confrontations claimed the live of the leader of rebellion ...
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Southern leaders to be prosecuted Monday |  Senior leaders of the Yemeni opposition had attended to the court which accused top leaders and activsts of the Yemeni Social Party of damaging the Yemeni unification...
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Houthi rebels affirms truce initiative |  The press release which its authenticity has not been verified said that the main road linking Sana'a and Saada was unblocked after there was an understanding between ...
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Security forces bans sit-in before parliament |  The executive chief of HOOD Organization for Rights and Freedoms, Khalid al-Anisi, has denounced the ban imposed by security forces against holding a sit-in designed to protest to arbitrary arrests resulted in by Saada ...
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Freedom House's 2008 report on Yemen |  Yemen’s government continued to clash with Zaidi Muslim rebels in the north in 2007. The authorities also continued their crackdown on the press and free speech, prosecuting journalists who criticized the state and especially its northern military campaign. Also in 2007, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation ...
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Article 19 expresses concern over arrest of al-Qarni |  The organization of Article 19 has expressed its deep concern by the deteriorating state of free expression in Yemen after a Yemeni court sentenced comedian Fahad al-Qarni to 18 months in prison and imposed a fine of...
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NDI concludes TOT workshop on conflict management |  Tribal Conflict Management Program at National Democratic Institute (NDI) concluded on Sunday July 6 a Training of Trainers' Workshop on conflict management for three nog-governmental organizations operating in Shabwa, Marib ...
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Seven wounded during protest in Dhala |  Seven people were injured, two of them critically, on Monday during a protest in Dhala governorate when an unidentified hand grenade exploded while police ...
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Eighty protestors arrested in Aden |  Sahwa Net was informed that 80 protestors were arrested, including three journalists and a press photographer, while the head of Yemen's opposition, the Joint Meeting Parties, in Aden, Abdul-Nassir Ba ...
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Yemeni opposition returns to parliament |  parliamentary blocs of the Yemeni opposition have declared ending of their boycott to the parliament's sessions in return of the ruling party abandoning to discuss a draft which through it was intending to pass...
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Unprecedented security alert in Aden |  The organizers of the march say it is their right to hold a march to express their opinion refuse the current situation, demand to release all political prisoners...
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Houthi cell seized in Aden |  Yemeni security forces could seize on Thursday a cell in Aden relating to Houthi rebels which printed books of the Imamate ...
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JMP warns authorities of disastrous dangers |  JMP affirmed in a press release issued on Wednesday that such policies have proved their failure repeatedly, and led to more crises and complications, holding , in the meantime, the ruling party responsible for what JMP described ...
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GCC countries to invest $200bn on 20 energy projects |  Recent reports on the solar energy industry found that solar energy accounts for only one percent of the world’s energy resources, today, while the rise of energy prices to record highs, coupled with the lack of signs of stability....
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Total charged with wasting amounts of Yemen's oil |  A Yemeni parliamentarian, Abdul-Karim Jadban, accused on Tuesday the French company, Total, of wasting 420,000 barrels of oil worth 11 billion and 700 thousand Yemeni rials, affirming in the meantime...
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Forty rebels killed in Saada |  Furthermore, tow Yemeni newspapers published interviews with the rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, but they said ...
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Random arrests in Abyan |  Yemeni security forces conducted on Sunday random arrests among citizens in Abyan governorate in the wake of two incidents with hand grenades ..
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Yemeni opposition stresses importance of dialogue |  Abdul-Wahab al-Anisi, head of the JMP supreme council, said Saturday in a press conference that elections are important to Yemen's future and that JMP is more interested in them than others, emphasizing that dialogue ...
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For Yemen’s Leader, a Balancing Act Gets Harder |  PRESIDENT Ali Abdullah Saleh’s face is everywhere in Yemen. He stares out from billboards, shop windows and living room walls, always with the same proud expression: eyes glinting, chest thrust out as if to confront a challenger. After 30 years in power...
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Saada in darkness, military dominates more positions |  Local sources in Saada province have affirmed that the city of Saada has been living in darkness four days ago due to the lack to fuel after a fuel tanker was attacked by Houthies on Tuesday , pointing out that over the owners of 120 ...
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Abbas to arrive in Yemen Wednesday |  The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is to arrive in Sana'a on Wednesday to discuss with the Yemeni president Ali Abudllah Sahle a number ...
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SHUAA Capital shareholders approve |  SHUAA Capital (ticker symbol: SHUA.DU), the leading financial services institution in the GCC, today confirms that all resolutions put forward to shareholders at both the Ordinary General Assembly and Extraordinary General Assembly held ...
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JMP accuses GPC of manipulating Yemen's future |  In a statement ,JMP made clear that such amendments contradict the state-constitution, democratic values, equal citizenship, empoison political life and undercut all reform ways, accusing, in the meantime, the GPC parliamentary bloc ...
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Yemeni oil exports boost |  Central Bank of Yemen has said that oil exports during the first four months of 2008 reached 14.52 million barrels..
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Deputy Premier: Iran trained Yemeni rebels |  Yemen's Deputy Premier for Defense and Security affairs Rashad al-Alimi said that Houthi rebels were trained in Iran and then came to harm Yemen and that they had performed acts of sabotage in 1983-84...
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The National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms, known as HOOD, called on the Interior Minister, Mutahr al-Masri to intervene to release ...
The Women Journalists Without Chains has demanded the parliament to direct the government to carry out its recommendations regarding ...
Demonstrations held on Thursday in Dhala and Lahj provinces demanded to cancel celebrations in which the authorities force citizens to attend to...
It said in a press release that the continued delay in dialogue means Yemen's parliament would pass through another vacation period and Ramadan, resulting in the need to compress ...
US lawyer David Remes has described Yemen's efforts to free its detainees from Guantanamo as feeble and modest...
The Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has urged to enhance relations between Iran and Yemen at all levels pointing out that such ties would lead to strengthening peace and stability ...
The Saudi Interior Ministry affirmed that banned merchandises were trafficked to Saudi and UAE markets across these states, ordering the importers and merchants to take strict ...
Several Yemeni organizations of human rights have called upon activists, politicians, journalists and all the concerned to protest on Sunday before the parliament in order to demand to put an end to forcible arrests ..
Yemeni journalist Syndicate has condemned what it described forcible measures conducted by security forces against journalists, the recent ones were ...
Yemeni popular comedian and singer Fahad al-Qarni was sentenced to one and half year in prison and a YR 500,000 fine ...
Yemen's main opposition, the Joint Meeting parties, has condemned an imprisonment ruling issued against a popular comedian and singer...
Yemeni security forces violated Fuad Dahaba, member of parliament , arrested two journalists Jabr Sabir and Saleh al-Soraimi and abused female activists belonging to the organization of Women Journalists Without ...
U.S. and Yemen remain at odds over a proposal to release more than one-third of the detainees from Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, even as the Bush administration wrestles with the ...
Observers fear that Yemen is descending into chaos -- a prediction made more dire by its proximity to a critical choke point through which one of every 25 barrels of the world's ...
The government forces seem determined to crush the rebellion whatever the losses and costs resulted in by such war which ...
The agency said that the number has doubled from the same period of last year and that almost 700 people died during their perilous ...
The United States has expressed its concern over human consequences caused by the conflict in Saada . American officials in Sana'a urged infighting sides, Houthi rebels and the government to let ...
Hamas delegation headed by the head of Hamas Political Office Khaled Meshaal is scheduled to begin three day visit on July ...
Memebers of theShoura Council have stressed the importance of involving all Yemeni political parties and civil society in discussing the draft...
Yemeni court in Sana'a refused on Tuesday to go on trying the comedian Fahad al-Qarni in absentia, asking to bring ...
The report also cited that some jails have inmates over their capacity, demanding security apparatus to adhere to the constitution and law and extend joint efforts between the Interior Ministry 
Pentagon has accused Abdul-Rahim al-Nashri with murder, terrorism and other crimes for ...
Yemeni Foreign Minister Dr. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi has ordered the Yemeni consulate in Saudi to contact the Saudi authorities on the incident of burning Yemenis at garbage dump ...
Efforts to challenge the ban of Yemeni websites at court were welcomed yesterday by many online community members participating in the Global Voices Advocacy Workshop held in Budapest, Hungary, under the theme "Online Free Speech: toward a global anti-censorship movement." The one-day workshop was a prelude to the Global Voices Online Citizen ...
The report also cited that some jails have inmates over their capacity, demanding security apparatus to adhere to the constitution and law and extend joint efforts between the ...
Yemen's opposition parties have been boycotting the parliament sessions for three weeks, protesting the ruling party's efforts designed to reform the election ...
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, condemns the jailing of Mohammed ...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has congratulated Yemeni journalist Abdelkarim Al Khaiwani winner of Amnesty International's "Sepcial Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat" and renewed ...
The Assistant Secretary-General of Yemen's main opposition party, Islah Party, Mohammad al-Saadi has affirmed that the key for the current crises in Yemen lies...
Groups of citizens from all Yemeni provinces visited during the last few days the Yemeni comedian Fahad al-Qarni to his ...
Yemen's security forces have arrested al-Qaeda member, Haitham Bin Saad along with his comrades in Hadramout province, some 900 kilometers ...
The office of al-Hourhi rebels leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi did not rule out news reports about the killing ...
Pirates have kidnapped a Western family from a yacht off Yemen and taken them to the breakaway republic of Somaliland...
Yemeni academics have demanded to review the public budgets, especially those of population...
Security sources in Abyan governorate have affirmed that government facilities in Abyan governorate were targeted with two ...
A primary penal court issued on Sunday a sentence of two months in prison against the opposition journalist Mohammad al-Makaleh who was accused of insulting ...
attacker Abdullah Saleh al-Aqari had killed 7 worshippers and wounded 12 others last month in a shooting rampage while ...
The London-based Amnesty International has granted a human rights media award to an outspoken Yemeni journalist just days after he was imprisoned ...
Yemeni security sources in Hodiada province has arrested a missionary cell including 7 people on charges of promoting to Christianity and distributing ...
An unidentified explosion in Dhala province left on Monday two soldiers and five other citizens wounded. A hand grenade was exploded ...
Local sources have affirmed that the home of Abyan governor was targeted on Monday, pointing out that no damages were resulted in and investigations ...
Yemeni court is to try on Monday 11 Iranians on charges of infiltrating to Yemeni territorial waters illegally...
Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that human rights defender and journalist Abdul-Karim al-Khaiwani has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment on 9 June 2008. Abdul-Karim al-Khaiwani is former Editor-in
The Women Journalist Without Chains organization has condemned the imprisonment sentence issued against journalist Abdul-Karim al-Khaiwani on June 9, calling all organizations, human rights defenders and political ...
The Turkish Bar Union head,Kamil Yarili, has criticized prosecuting the Yemeni comedian Fahd al-Qarni, considering the prosecution a violation ...
The Yemeni military could dominate most positions in Saada province and made good progress against Houthi insurgents, according to...
Yemen's opposition, the Joint Meeting Parties, has been boycotting the parliament session, opposing the ruling party insistence to form the Supreme Committee of the Election and Referendum according to their ...
The court headed by judge Abdul-Aziz al-Gharash pleaded Yves Lebourgeois not guilty as Sana'a university experts confirmed that all the seized artifacts ...
The European Commission and the Yemeni government signed an agreement draft of supporting election systm and promoting the parliament's abilities at the cost ...
CPJ Mideast Program Coordinator Joel Campagna expressed to "Sahwa Net" his sorrow over the sentence, saying that it could tear down Yemen's creditability to protect ...
Sahwa Net – Many Yemeni and International organizations, journalists and activists strongly condemned a six-year jail sentence issued on Monday against an outspoken journalist, Abdul-Karim al-Khawani, who was shortly arrested in the wake ...
Yemen's main opposition alliance, the Joint Meeting Parties, pulled out on Sunday from the House of Representatives, protesting preparations by the ruling party aiming ...
The Yemeni Journalist Syndicate has called upon all journalists, activists, parliamentarians and civil society to attend the trying of the well-known journalist ...
Penal court of Amran province held its first hearing to prosecute a suspect of killing seven and wounding 11 worshippers on May 30 inside ...
Despite bloody clashes in Saada between the Yemeni military and Houthi rebels, it is reportedly said that Qatar's crown prince sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani who visited Sana'a on Sunday and met Yemen's leadership...
