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Two experts from the WHO arrived in Sana’a on Saturday to participate in the field campaigns against the rift valley fever disease which has so far claimed lives of about 100 people in Hodeidah. Under directives of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a number of army Helicopters are preparing to take part in the operation and expand the spray of insecticides all over Yemen. Following the visit of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to the Ministry of Health and survey of the operation unit to control the disease, he gave orders to ministries of defense and interior to ban import and entry of livestock from the African Horn. A government team has recently announced full control of the disease in Wadi Mour, Hodeidah, pointing out that no deaths had been reported since last Wednesday. Local sources in Hodeidah told the Yemen Times that a number of new cases had been detected in Hodeidah and that more than 2,000 animals had died. A state of emergency has been declared in Hodeidah Wadies following the spread of the fever there. In the meantime, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, spraying teams and experts are continuing efforts to control the disease. BAGHDAD- A Yemeni plane, in defiance of U.N. sanctions, touched down at the Saddam International Airport here Friday afternoon to show solidarity with the sanctions-hit country. This was the second plane from Arab countries to arrive in Baghdad since Iraq reopened the airport on August 17, and it was also the first flight from Yemen to Iraq in the past 10 years. Upon arrival, Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdul Qader Ba Jammal, who led the delegation, told reporters the visit is aimed at showing not only solidarity with the Iraqi people, but also trying to build a new future for the Arab countries. He reiterated Yemen’s call for lifting the decade-old United Nations sanctions imposed after Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, who welcomed the Yemeni delegation at the airport, praised the Yemeni move and slammed the “illegal” air ban imposed on Iraq by the United States and Britain. Some 70 people, including Yemeni Information Minister Abdul Rahman al-Akwa, parliamentarians and journalists were aboard the Boeing 727-200 plane. The Yemeni plane came after a Jordanian plane landed in Baghdad on Thursday, being the first plane from an Arab country in more than a decade. Russia and France were the first to break what the U.S. and Britain insist “air ban” on Iraq by sending planes to Baghdad after notifying, instead of getting permission from the United Nations Sanctions Committee. It has been reported that Russia and France would send more planes to Iraq, and India, Iceland, Syria and Lebanon are considering flying planes to Baghdad to further crack the air ban. The U.S. and Britain maintain that all flights to or from Iraq must get permission from the United Nations Sanctions Committee, but Russia and France do not think the authorization is necessary as they claim that the U.N. sanctions on Iraq do not cover air embargo. Iraq rejects that the sanctions include an air embargo, saying that no U.N. resolution forbids humanitarian or civil flights to or from Iraq. (Xinhua) The British Export Promoter in the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffery Searle, arrives in Aden. Mr. Searle works for one of Britain’s leading domestic furniture manufacturers and is on secondment to Trade Partners UK. He has extensive experience of international trade gained over thirty years of exporting. The British Consulate in Aden will make a welcome ceremony in Gold Mohur Hotel on Monday 2 October. Sheikh Mohammed ba Mashmoos will preside a meeting between the Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Geaffery Searle who will visit a number of the Yemeni governorates like Taiz, Sana’a, Aden. He will also visit Aden Container Terminal to carry on a propaganda for the the British exports. He will also visit some Yemeni markets and meet with Yemeni businessmen. A workshop to draw up a draft of educational goals to integrate child rights in educational curricula was organized yesterday in Sheraton Hotel. These goals will be included in the curricula from level seven to the final level of secondary school. The workshop will last till October 3. In the inauguration ceremony, Mr. Akil Air, vice representative of the UNICEF, delivered a speech in which he reviewed the organization efforts in this field. Mrs. Insaf Abdu kasem, vice manager of Researches and Educational Development Dep., Sana’a, told YT “The workshop is to integrate the treaty of child rights in the educational curricula. Some preliminary workshops have already been organized for the very purpose. These workshops are for those who take part in preparation of schools’ curricula so as to set up the educational goals for child rights which are to be translated into subjects that will be included in the curricula.” She added “Another workshop about the same topic would be organized during 29-31 October. The third workshop will be organized in Aden during 5-7 November which will aim at integrating new educational issues in the curricula such as populated, environmental, health and water education and to stress the importance of child rights.” Yemeni Association for Care and Rehabilitation of the blind prepares to hold 9th week of the blind on 9 October, 2000. In this year’s week, the association focuses on health, educational and social problems suffered by the blind children. It ascribes those problems to the family ignorance of its role in protecting children against various diseases leading to blindness. The family also does not realize importance of education for the blind, added to that the little number of institutes for the blind in the capital. There are no such institutes in other governorates as well as non-existence of an institute for the blind girls. A workshop for icreasing awareness of judicial and legal cadre of issues related to violence against women would be as organized on 2-4 October 2000 at the Hall of the Higher Institute for Justice. The workshop was organized by Supporting Women Issues Center, Supporting Civil Democratic Transition Establishment and in cooperation with UNDP. It was sponsored by Ismail al-Wazir, Justice Minister. 50 judges, prosecutors and lawyers from different governorates will be attending this workshop. Mrs. Sultan al-Jeham, program coordinator, said that the program was part of a year-long program for raising the judicial and legal cadre’s awareness. A number of media workshops and activities would be held nationwide during that year. Mr. Abdullah Abdualwali Nasher, Health Minister, inaugurated last Wednesday September 27 a clinic for journalists in the Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate, Sana’a. The Minister, accompanied by Mr. Mahboob Ali chairman of journalists syndicate, made a tour of the syndicate building. The syndicate was granted a licence to operate the clinic by Dr. Ihssan Hasson and Dr. Salwan al-Khuza’i. The Syndicate was also exempted from licence’s fees and registration with the Ministry. The Minister expressed willingness to render all kinds of support to journalists, syndicate members and their families. Organized by the National Women Committee, a discussion workshop on “Political Participation of Yemeni Women in Parties” is to be held today at headquarters of the committee. Dr. Mohammed Abdulmalek al-Mutawakel, teacher at the political sciences’ dep., Sana’a University, Amat al-Razak Hamd, PGC women department chairman, Dr. Amat al-Salam Raja’a, YCR “Islah” women department chairman, Mrs. Shafikah Murshed, YSP permanent committee member, and Mrs. Rana Ahmad Ghanem, PNUP permanent committee member are all going to participate in the workshop. People’s Nasserite Unionist Party student sector has issued a statement on raising university tuition fees for this year. The statement has reviewed backgrounds of the unfair decision that deprives thousands of poor students of education and causes them to go begging at time unemployment rates are increasing horribly. Organized by Agricultural Faculty at Sana’a university/Aden in cooperation with DAAD workshops were organized on environmental issues and education in the field of medicine. The workshop aimed to reach former scholarship holders of the German Academic Exchange Service, which are open to everyone interested in the field of environment/solar energy (Sana’a) and various topics concerning health and medicine. The workshops were set off Saturday October 1 and will continue until October 7, 2000. Worth mentioning is that these workshops were held last year and the year before. |
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