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Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, who’s Arab world’s next?
The successful revolt in Tunisia under the autocratic regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who had ruled for 23 years inspired confidence in...
Al Qaeda in Yemen
On Wednesday the Washington Post reported that CIA sources now believe that Yemen-based group, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), now represents a...
Nigerian syringe terror bomber: More details unfold
More chilling details are beginning to emerge on the plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up the Delta/NorthWest Airlines flight to...
Air travel security: African airline companies constitute 45% of European aviation blacklist
The tragic crash of flight A310 Yemenia in June 2009, off the Comoros coast has revived debates over air transport safety. Tuesday, July 14,...
Somalia: Yemeni oil tanker taken back from prirates
Yemeni forces have retaken Qana, an oil tanker seized on Sunday by Somali pirates, the counrys Ministry of Defense announced Monday in Sana'a, the...
Somalis fleeing their country via Gulf of Aden up by 70%
More than 50,000 Somalis were smuggled through the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in 2008, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said in its latest...
Several boat passengers, mostly Ethiopian, forced overboard in Gulf of Aden
At least 20 people drowned off the coast of Yemen earlier in the week and two were reported missing after smugglers carrying them across...
Yemen Horn of Africa : Calm sea lures African migrants
According to UNHCR, more than 22,532 people have arrived in Yemen since the beginning of 2008. Most live in abject poverty
SANAA, 9 September 2008...
Several worshippers killed in Mosque attack in Yemen
About eight people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a mosque in the Amran province of Yemen. Official sources say the gunman...
Blast in Sanaa near the Italian embassy
A blast was heard early this morning in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, according to Al Jazeera. The attack happened in the central al-Safia district...
Member of parliament killed in Yemen.
According to Al Jazeera, Saleh al-Hindi, a member of the General Peoples Congress, the ruling party in Yemen was shot dead earlier today in...
Qat cultivation threatening water resources, specialists warn
For Ahmed Rajeh, a 54-year-old farmer from Sanaa Governorate, qat is as important as water. “Qat is the of our economy,” Rajeh says,...