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WB supports NGOs fight against QaT use among youth

Aug 30, 2010 - 1:00:32 PM
SANA’A, (Saba)- The World Bank’s Civil Society Fund has awarded six Yemeni Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) financial support for civic engagement in the fight against Qat, the WB has announced in a statement.


YEMEN THROUGH AN AMERICAN’S LENS

Aug 30, 2010 - 12:52:09 PM
It took over a year to convince American photographer Don Whitebread to come to Yemen. It is, after all, a long ways from the California suburbs.


Sa’dah war’s flagrant abuse to childrens’ rights (part 2)

Aug 28, 2010 - 11:18:09 PM
Every war has a price, and all Yemenis from the remote areas of al-Mahrah to the Saudi borders have paid this price, however Sa’dah people bear the bulk of the price. Every dispute has victims but the people of Sa’dah are the most affected and the Sa’dah children are the first among the victims with the utmost complications.


Yemen returns 195 tons of illegal pesticides to their countries of origin

Aug 26, 2010 - 3:00:33 PM
(Saba)-Yemen has returned 195 tons of pesticides during the first half of this year. These quantities of pesticides were prohibited and entered the country illegally.


Child labor in Yemen...outlaw phenomenon

Aug 26, 2010 - 4:54:28 AM
The child labor phenomenon in Yemen has worsened since the 1960s because of the economic deterioration and high rates of poverty, as field studies have shown.


Sa’dah war, flagrant abuse of childrens’ rights Part (1)

Aug 24, 2010 - 10:46:16 PM
Every war has a price, and all Yemenis from the remote areas of al-Mahrah to the Saudi borders have paid this price, however Sa’dah people bear the bulk of the price.


Prominent hospital in al-Hodaidah shuts down

Aug 18, 2010 - 10:56:51 PM
Despite the worst health situation in the country as a whole , however Hodeida has its special conditions , due to the intensive population and the good environment for disease spread.


Socotra’s Belated Buzzard – The World’s Newest Bird

Aug 12, 2010 - 3:52:07 PM
Although there are roughly 10,000 known bird species on the planet, the announcement of a new one is a comparatively rare event that sends major waves through the conservation establishment.


Thousands victims of Tourism Marriage in Thamar Governorate

Aug 12, 2010 - 3:48:20 PM
Thamar Governorate has recently seen an alien phenomenon that is incompatible with Islamic principles and threatens the future of the family structure.


To boost democracy students councils project launched

Jul 28, 2010 - 5:06:01 AM
Funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and implemented by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), the Student Council Project establishes and activates the student councils in some governorates of the Republic of Yemen


Health official warns of dengue outbreak in Hadramout

Jul 21, 2010 - 11:45:55 AM
Dengue fever disease could turn into an epidemic next year if there is no action taken to contain its spread, warned Dr.Alabed Bamousa, head of Hadramout’s Public Health Ministry office


Early marriage in Yemen

Jul 21, 2010 - 11:39:02 AM
Yemen observer sheds light on early marriage from time to time, the reasons behind it, the consequences and the difficulties that result from it. In Yemen and in particular the province of Thamar there are calls for its end rescuing childhood innocence from early marriage is taking a higher priority.


Southern movement’s internal struggle

Jul 19, 2010 - 4:11:30 PM
Indifferences from within the Southern movement have recently surfaced to give a strong indication of the external forces intervention and pressure and their impact on the internal, which is denied by the different internal forces.


Yemen’s Untouchable Class: The Akhdam

Jul 14, 2010 - 10:25:33 AM
I walk in the frantic streets of Sana’a. I see them everywhere decked in grab green working uniforms, sweeping the dirt in the streets, delivering goods to local shops, begging outside of the city’s markets.


British Council concludes intensive training sessions, honors teachers’ trainers

Jul 13, 2010 - 4:10:16 PM
The British council in conjunction with the Ministry of Education has recently concluded the intensive courses for trainers of teachers held in Sana’a at the High institute in-service from 19th of June to the 3rd of July 2010.


Dar al-Salam Participates in Conference to limit the Spread of Small Arms

Jul 13, 2010 - 4:07:56 PM
Dar al-Salam Organization (House of Peace in Yemen) participated in the fourth conference to reduce the spread of small arms weapons which was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from June 14th to the 18th, said Abdulrahman al-Marwani chairperson of Dar al-Salam on Wednesda


Electricity outages leave Mukalla in the dark

Jul 13, 2010 - 4:04:03 PM
Mukalla - Thousands of residents in the city of Mukalla has spent uncomfortable days since the Al-Rayan Power station come in a halt on Sunday following a huge fire that ravaged the city’s main power plant. The temperature in Mukalla soars above 45° Celsius.


Yemen’s vast lands should be properly used to flourish its agricultural development

Jul 6, 2010 - 4:59:23 PM
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations to finance agricultural development projects, has been financing development initiatives in Yemen for almost 30 years,...


Yemen Observer interviews El Tayeb Musa, Oxfam’s Yemen Office Director

Jun 28, 2010 - 3:42:57 PM
Oxfam in Yemen is seeking to expand its business over the next year 2011, by scaling up its mother and child health work and expanding It to other provinces.


Sa’adah Reconstruction Fund prepares for rehabilitation in Bani Hushaish

Jun 28, 2010 - 3:14:32 PM
Engineer Mohammed Abdullah Thabet, Sa’adah Reconstruction Fund Manager ensured that field work will be resumed within the next few weeks in Bani Hushaish for reconstructing 380 of the citizens’ houses...


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