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   Sanaa, weekly 13/12/98 (Federation of Popular Forces) -15 persons were killed in a traffic accident last Thursday when a bus coming from Saudi Arabia collided with a Hilux car in Khamees bani Haij. -Wheat was noticeably scarce in Sanaa in the past few days following news of the near lifting of government subsidy on that material. -A powerful explosion rocked a suburb of Dhale governorate last Thursday near a military checkpoint in the fifth such incident in four days. -Economic researchers, in a seminar on poverty organized in Aden recently, linked the increase in divorce cases in Yemen to the deteriorating economic situation.
Sanaa, weekly 16/12/98 (official) -A number of syndicates have protested the government's plan to increase income taxes in a message to the Parliament Speaker and Members. -Rector of Sanaa University and head of the teaching staff's syndicate Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh threatened that the teaching staff will escalate the strike which started two weeks ago if the government did not increase their salaries as agreed upon last September. -The second anti-malaria campaign is well underway in the governorate of Aden in a bid to control the spread of that fatal disease. -The Yemeni Consul in Bombay said that a number of Yemenis were imprisoned in India on charges of gold smuggling.
Sanaa, weekly 13/12/98 (League of the Sons of Yemen) -The security authorities have recently deported 97 illegal immigrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. -An employee of Taiz University has hanged himself over family problems. -More than 20 people in Abyan governorate were bitten by rabid dogs as citizens in the Derjaj village asked for providing necessary medicine to combat rabies. -Oil brokers from Tokyo and Singapore refused to buy Yemeni oil shipments for coming January at a price 49 cents less than the Brent crude.
Sanaa, weekly 15/12/98 (Independent) Yemen welcomes Saudi International Arbitration Proposal -Yemeni Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Abdulqader Ba-Jammal has welcomed Saudi Arabia's proposal to solve their countries' border dispute through international arbitration. The Saudi Foreign Minister had recently declared that his country was ready to refer its border dispute with Yemen to the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Ba-Jammal affirmed that his country had repeatedly declared its readiness to accept any method proposed by Saudi Arabia to settle their dispute.
Sanaa, weekly 15/12/98 (Nasserite People's Unionist Organization) -A member of parliament, Saqer Al-Wajeeh has received a threat on his life if he tabled a report on murders in Sanaa from the group that committed those killings. -An armed group of men early this week stormed into unoccupied houses of Yassin Said Noman, former parliament speaker, and Mohammed Said, former housing minister in Sanaa. Efforts by political figures to stop the seizure of the two houses were a failure. -Headmaster of Salahuldin School in Ibb governorate last Sunday closed the school, sending the pupils home for refusing to pay donations. -Well-informed sources told AL WAHDAWI that a tribe in Mareb was demanding one million dollars as compensation in return for allowing the operation of oil pipelines maintenance equipment. The source said that the cost of repairing one hole in the pipelines could reach $100,000.
Sanaa, bi-weekly 15/12/98 (Independent) -President Ali Abdullah Saleh's visit to France may result in the purchase of advanced French military hardware, according to western observers. -kidnappers of the four German tourists have tabled a long list of requests in return for their release, all of which include extending various kinds of services to Ra'ad Mountain area in Marib. -A number of fishermen in Hodeida have appealed to the Fisheries Minister to put an end to foreign ships' illegal fishing in Yemeni territorial waters in the Red Sea which greatly affected last month's yield of shrimps. -The Education Ministry has opened the door for new contracts with non-Yemeni teachers who receive half their salaries in U.S. dollars, while many Yemeni graduates of various colleges could not work because of the government decision halting all new employments until further notice. Article Summary:
Sanaa, weekly 17/12/98 (Yemeni Socialist Party) -Security authorities in Hajja are currently detaining a citizen after he reported the disappearance of his eight-year old daughter. Sources told the paper that when security authorities could not find the girl they detained her father. -The ruling PGC is launching an enforced fund raising campaign in various governorates without giving any receipts in return for the collected donations. -The PGC is enforcing its membership on citizens in a number of governorates. -A YSP Politburo Member has warned that Yemen's unity is facing two dangers, firstly the calls for disintegrating that unity and secondly fanatical practices in the name of defending unity.
Sanaa, weekly 17/12/98 (Independent) -Yemeni Air Force warplanes Wednesday bombarded areas in Mareb where kidnappers of the four German tourists are entrenched as they demanded 40 million riyals in return for their release. -The Saudi-Yemeni military committee failed to reach an agreement on border disputes and did not set a date for their upcoming meeting. -The Yemeni authorities decided to deport all political detainees from the Arab opposition elements living in Sanaa with the exception of the Sudanese who were released in return for financial guarantees. -Tribal mediation efforts, supervised by the Interior Minister, succeeded in securing the release of the son of a Parliament Deputy, who was kidnapped a few days ago, in return for a vehicle and a number of automatic rifles. Article Summary:
Sanaa, weekly 17/12/98 (Haqq Party) -The alliance of Mareb and Jauf tribes have warned the government of renewed disturbances in their areas if their grievances were not resolved. -The German State Minister for Foreign Affairs had conveyed to the Yemeni President, during his recent visit to France, Berlin's concern with the deteriorating security situation in Yemen and asked "firmly" for the safe release of the four abducted German tourists. -Malaria is still spreading in various governorates despite the government's declared combat campaign with reports of deaths still pouring from a number of villages. -Competing tribes in Dhamar have kidnapped two civilians each from a different tribe over real estate differences.
Aden, weekly 15/12/98 (Independent) Main Headlines
Sanaa, weekly 17/12/98 (Yemeni Congregation for Reform - Islah) -The government is still refusing to pay financial assistance to the 800 students who won scholarships abroad. -A number of Sanaa University professors and students have denounced the Aden University decision banning female students from wearing veils in the Medicine College. -The U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has repatriated from Aden 1,500 Somali refugees to their homeland over the past 11 months, as part of its voluntary repatriation program. -70,000 cases of malaria were treated in Taiz since the initiation of the national campaign to combat that disease.
Sanaa, weekly 17/12/98 (Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party) Attack on Iraq Condemned The Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party - Yemen Branch - has affirmed its unwavering solidarity with Iraq in face of the American-British aggression. The Party, in a statement on the brutal attacks on Iraq, called for a Pan-Arab stand to protect that Arab country and its unity. It called for immediate and collective endeavor of all Yemeni forces, government and opposition, away from marginal differences in support of Iraq to confront the aggressive attacks which target not only Iraq but the whole Arab Nation. The statement described the attack as criminal and cowardly and called on the Yemeni government to launch speedy and urgent moves via various political and diplomatic channels to end that aggression. |