01 - January 4th thru January 10th 1999, Vol IX
By: Sameer Farawna
ATTARIQ
Aden, weekly 29/12/98
(Independent)
Main Headlines:
-The governor of Mareb accuses foreign parties, which he did not name, of perpetrating the explosion of the main oil pipeline in the governorate as the American Hunt company says that the repair operation cost two million dollars.
-The International Monetary Fund has warned the gulf countries, Algeria and Yemen of the serious repercussions of the continuing down slide of the oil prices on their economies.
-Two young men opened their machinegun fire at another man following a quarrel near a mosque in Shahr, Hadhramaut Saturday before last and mistakenly killed another man and wounded three others, one of whom is in critical condition.
Article Summary:
Foreign Fishing Boats Flee Yemeni Waters
The sources added that Thai, Taiwanese, Korean and Singaporean boats have left Yemeni territorial waters because of lack of security.
The boats' owners had repeatedly complained against piracy and blackmail practised by local fishermen and coastguards.
For his part, the Managing Director of the National Chinese Fishing Company has charged that Yemeni pirates, fishermen and coastguards were robbing, blackmailing and kidnapping the company's boats.
He appealed to the concerned authorities to put an end to such practices and provide suitable circumstances for work of his company's boats in 1999.
AL MEETHAQ
Sanaa, weekly 28/12/98
(People's General Conference)
Main Headlines:
-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has affirmed importance of the Arab summit, which he called for, to restore unity of ranks and to confront challenges facing the Arab Nation.
-17 Arab countries agree to attend the consultative meeting for the Arab Foreign Ministers.
-The government stocks committee discussed the establishment of a Yemeni stock exchange market as tabled in a previous study paper.
-The director of the taxes department has affirmed that amendments on income tax currently tabled with the parliament aims at lowering taxes on low income employees.
AL BALAGH
Sanaa, weekly 29/12/98
(Independent)
Main Headlines:
-Environment protection has recently destroyed 85 tons of expired foodstuff materials confiscated from local markets.
-Yemeni businessman Nabil Al Khamry has appealed to the President of the Republic to pay concern to attacks on Yemeni businessmen which he said represented an attack on national capital.
-Military units unleashed their tank and artillery fire against villages of Al Jalal tribe in Mareb following an armed dispute between two tribesmen and army soldiers in which one of the tribesmen was killed and three soldiers wounded.
-The Information Ministry has banned the circulation of the latest issue of the independent opposition paper 'Al Rai Al Aam'.
-Minister of Planning and Development Ahmad Mohammed Soufan revealed that the European Committee had lifted an embargo on importing Yemeni fish. He did not disclose, however, when was the embargo imposed and why.
AL WAHDAWI
Sanaa, weekly 29/12/98
(Nasserite People's Unionist Organization)
Main Headlines:
-Local sources affirmed that the concerned authorities had failed to repair the damaged oil pipeline in Mareb, adding that a number of Obaid tribesmen threatened to attack whoever approaches the site.
-Saudi Arabia aborts efforts for the convening of an extraordinary Arab summit in Cairo as called for by Yemen.
-An official source in the Unionist Organization has denied the presence of any dialogue with the PGC.
-The body of a 14-year old Palestinian kid was found on December 26 in the Palestinian residential quarters in Hadda with a bullet hole in the back of his skull.
-Branches of Yemeni political parties in Taiz have organized two seminars last week in solidarity with the Iraqi people vis-a-vis the American-British aggressions.
-Security men arrested a homicide department officer on charges of attempting to kidnap a tourist from Comoro Islands late last Monday.
-The Yemeni journalist, Hassan Al Zaydi, who was accompanying the German reporter during his interview with kidnappers of the four German tourists was still detained inspite of the fact that the foreign reporter was set free.
AL HAQ
Sanaa, weekly 27/112/98
(Independent)
Main Headlines:
-Yemeni political circles have expressed dismay over the fact that the American Centcom Commander Gen. Anthony Zinni had led the attacks on Iraq only a few days after ending a short visit to Yemen.
-Some said he was mad and others argued that he was experiencing difficult conditions, but nobody will really know since the man got killed immediately after throwing himself under a passing lorry in Taiz last week.
-Two rival tribes from Mikhlaf in Sharaab, Taiz have used light and medium weapons in clashes that left one killed and two wounded, including a woman a few days ago. No reason was known so far for the armed clashes.
-A number of religious scholars have denounced the selling of Qat in a cemetery in Tarim city of Hadhramaut, noting that hundreds of Moslem clergies were buried there.
RAI
Sanaa, weekly 29/12/98
(League of the Sons of Yemen)
Main Headlines:
-The security situation in the capital Sanaa and other governorates have witnessed a remarked deterioration with many killing, kidnap and theft incidents reported.
-Workers in Mareb oil fields were leaving their work sites following threats on their lives from tribes there who are frustrated from the government's failure to meet its financial pledges to them.
-Seera's Primary Court has demanded the Aden University administration to respect the female students' veils and to allow them to continue their studies while wearing them. The varsity reportedly asked its legal affairs department to appeal the verdict.
-The League's Assistant Secretary general has expressed surprise over a recent statement for the PGC's political department head, saying that a dialogue was made between his party and the "legitimate leadership" of the League. The Assistant affirmed that there was no other legitimate leadership but theirs.
Article Summary:
The German Reporter: "I Miraculously Escaped Death"
He said that following a short meeting with the German tourists in Bani Dhabyan he left along with his Yemeni companion in their rented car.
They passed by a car, without plates, in the night which carried seven armed men, two of whom fired indiscriminately at their car. They only stopped when the Yemeni companion told them that "we are all tribesmen".
However, at a later stage an army patrol handed them over to the police which arrested both of them and refused to return back the film which contained photos of the abducted tourists.
AL THAWRI
Sanaa, weekly 31/12/98
(Yemeni Socialist Party)
Main Headlines:
-Kidnappers of the four German tourists quickly released them after one of the females hostages' blood pressure rose to a serious level last Wednesday night, fearing that she may die.
-The YSP secretary general has affirmed that the Party's general conference had cancelled penalties against its members as a prelude for its call for a Yemeni national reconciliation.
-The YSP is still receiving many applications to join the party in various governorates.
-The Journalists Syndicate's Central Council is to meet on January 5 in preparation for the convening of the Syndicate's second general conference.
Article Summary:
War of Words Between Saudi and Yemeni Media
Recently that was notably noticed in both countries' media where each party heaped accusations against the other and even threatened the other.
Concern over future of bilateral relations normally rises following such campaigns especially when they had past experience in igniting fires between the two Arab countries.
There are certain parties in both Riyadh and Sanaa which are interested in keeping tensions high between the two fraternal states.
The press in both capitals is called upon to cool down differences and officials in both governments are also invited to find a speedy solution to the border dispute that had been the source of such tensions for decades.
AL JAMAHEER
Sanaa, weekly 31/12/98
(Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party)
Main Headlines:
-The national committee for the support of Arab and Islamic issues has called on the Yemeni people to boycott American and British products in retaliation to the aggressions against Iraq over two weeks ago.
-Water supplies in Aden governorate are witnessing a continuous downslide which specialists attribute to the random expansion in building houses.
-The Jahm tribe had once again exploded the oil pipeline in Serwah, Mareb last Tuesday, 24 hours after repairing the hole caused by the blast a week earlier.
26 SEPTEMBER
Sanaa, weekly 31/12/98
(Yemen Armed Forces)
Main Headlines:
-The higher Egyptian-Yemeni committee is to hold its fifth session in Cairo following Eid Al Fitr vacation.
-Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Mohammed Al Sayedi has affirmed that the recent regretful incidents in which three British tourists were killed will not affect the Yemeni-British friendly relations.
-Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah Abdul Wali Nasher has announced that the American Oil Company Exxon had promised a donation of 30,000 dollars to Al Sab'een Hospital.
-The Yemeni Oil Refining Company has taken over control of the Mareb refinery from the Hunt Company in accordance with a past agreement signed between the two sides.
-The Deputy Minister of Supplies and Commerce has affirmed that wheat and flour were available in the local market in abundance.
AL OSBO'
Sanaa, weekly 31/12/98
(Independent)
Main Headlines:
-Four security men raped a 16 years old girl in Hodeida Sunday last week and sources close to the victim said that the Central Security Department was refusing to hand over the culprits.
-The Information Ministry suspended issuance of the independent Yemeni daily AL RAI AL AAM following Saudi protests against an article published by that paper a week ago.
-Well informed sources in Abyan told AL OSBO' that four Algerians, two Somalese and an Egyptian had shared in the kidnap of the 16 tourists in the governorate last Monday.
-British and Australian officials have expressed dismay at the way the Yemeni government handled the Kidnap of their tourists in Abyan. The Yemeni military operation to free the kidnappers ended in the killing of four tourists from both nationalities.
-Saudi Arabia has spearheaded efforts to foil the convening of the extraordinary Arab summit called for by Yemen.
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