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Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, who’s Arab world’s next?

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

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

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

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,...
Somalis fleeing their country via Gulf of Aden up by 70%

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...
Yemen Horn of Africa : Calm sea lures African migrants

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...
Qat cultivation threatening water resources, specialists warn

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,...