SANA'A: In a recent statement to the press, Alistair Burt, the UK Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, expressed his views on Yemen saying that it was now time for foreign nations to truly grasp the danger (...)
SANA'A: Yemen's Human Rights Minister Hooria Mashour announced on Wednesday at a press Conference that she estimated that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh had committed more crimes in his three decades in power against the Yemeni people than the (...)
SANA'A: Military sources based in the southern province of Abyan told Bikyamasr.com that the armed forces backed by local tribesmen and United States warplanes were making “real progress” against al-Qaeda militants.
After four days of an intense (...)
SANA'A: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Yemen's government and more specifically the Press and Publication court for continuing its “charade” of justice against two al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested last year while (...)
SANA'A: Although the government is unwilling to admit that AIDS is a social and health issue that Yemen needs to deal with, many officials are still reluctant to speak of the deadly infectious disease as much stigma is attached to the (...)
SANA'A: A young 23-year-old woman from Sana'a was buried last week by her family after her cancer spread to her brain and other organs. Fatma, whose life was cut short by cancer was diagnosed 8 months ago with a stage 2 breast cancer, which doctors (...)
SANA'A: According to official reports from Yemen's defense ministry, the country's armed forces are making decisive advances against al-Qaeda in the southern province of Abyan, having managed to regain strategic positions.
Mount Yasouf near (...)
SANA'A: As announced by the Washington Post, this Wednesday American President Barak Obama is to sign an executive order, which would give the Treasury Department the ability to freeze the assets of whoever, American or foreign, would impede Yemen's (...)
SANA'A: The Central Security Forces in Sana'a told Bikyamasr.com that it had alerted the interior ministry of a potential al-Qaeda bomb attack in Sana'a as intelligence reports pointed out to the presence of Islamic militants within the (...)
SANA'A: 2011 was a catastrophic year in terms of tourism in Yemen as the country was enthralled in a violent popular uprising. 2012 and the threat of terror attacks have turned out to be as lethal to the ailing industry sector.
Despite a rich (...)
SANA'A: Early last month reports came out that Yemen's finance ministry had release large sums of money for the construction of a mosque within the grounds of al-Iman University, which incidentally happens to belong to controversial Sheikh Abdel (...)
SANA'A: Amid reports this week that armed “elements” in Yemen's capital Sana'a continue to spread chaos and terror by targeting foreign officials, reports are now coming through of a bomb attack against Yemen Information Minister, Ali (...)
SANA'A: According to the local authorities, al-Qaeda militants based in the eastern province of Mareb in Yemen have once again targeted the country's oil and gas infrastructure by damaging a pipeline, prompting a halt in production on Monday.
An (...)
SANA'A: Addressing the press, Yemen's Oil Minister Hisham Sharaf said on Monday that the country had suffered big losses due to the persistent attacks on its oil and gas pipelines.
At a meeting with the French foreign minister's Middle East (...)
SANA'A: Police officers in Yemen's capital Sana'a told Bikyamasr.com that a group of 7 drunk Yemeni youth attacked a 13-year-old orphan girl.
After raping her, the young men beat up the orphan so badly that she succumbed to the blows of her (...)
SANA'A: Yemen officials said they were angry over the fact that the Pentagon had chosen not to share its intelligence on reports that al-Qaeda militants in Yemen were working towards a new type of bomb which they planned to use against an American (...)
SANA'A: In a recent interview with al-Arabiya TV channel, the special UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar admitted by omission that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was seriously hindering the transitional process, allowing his loyalists to run havoc (...)
SANA'A: Yemen's Interior Ministry announced on Sunday in a statement posted on its website that it had managed to secure the imminent release of Saudi Vice-Consul to Aden, Abdullah al-Khalidi and Swiss school teacher Sylvia Abrahat within the next (...)
SANA'A: Yemen's president, Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi, addressed the nation on Saturday for the first time since he took office back in February 21st, vowing to relentlessly “crush the al-Qaeda advances and to return all controlled territories back to (...)
SANA'A: After a year of renewed warning and alarm rising by many world renown humanitarian organizations and groups such as Oxfam, the World Bank and the UNICEF to only name a few nothing so far seem to have mobilized the international community and (...)
SANA'A: Yemen's government has begun implementing a comprehensive plan to revive its dying economy by stimulating job growth and bolstering social welfare programs in an effort to reduce poverty and unemployment.
The plan includes providing (...)
SANA'A: According to the latest figures from the Interior Ministry there would be a reported two millions African refugees in Yemen as they all fled their war-torn nations hoping to find a safe haven.
Most refugees actually only pass through (...)
SANA'A: Officials in Yemen announced that the next Arab League (AL)conference of 2012, which is set to start on Sunday, will discuss Yemen's humanitarian crisis, while trying to establish measures that will put a halt to a fast degrading situation (...)
SANA'A: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a series of anti-press attacks in Yemen over the past 10 days that have included assaults on two journalists, threats against two more, and the official harassment of a local (...)
SANA'A: Former Yemen president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, according to western diplomats has demanded $50 million by the international community in order to leave the country for the UAE and allow President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi to rule (...)