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   Sanaa, weekly 3/1/99 (Federation of Popular Forces) -An international team, grouping four Britons and ten Americans in addition to an Australian diplomat, were investigating the kidnap of 16 tourists in Abyan a week ago which ended in the killing of four of them. -A report by the audit bureau has estimated that 40 million dollars were embezzled from public money over the past three years. -The government is planning to privatize a number of service sectors topped by communications and air transport. -A research paper by Dr. Abdul Wase Ahmad Muqbal has asserted impossibility of ending tribal wars in the country as long as corruption persisted, noting that 80 such wars were waged over two years, some of which are still raging.
Sanaa, weekly 5/1/99 (League of the Sons of Yemen) -A number of security apparatuses in the country are currently studying the formation of a special commando unit to handle kidnap incidents as the U. S. and Britain expressed readiness to support that unit financially and technically. -The four German tourists were released in return for five million rials, three paid by the German Embassy and two by the Yemeni government, in addition to four vehicles. -A bullet randomly shot by a policeman hit a member of the democratic youth league in Ibb governorate Wednesday before last. -The security bodies have failed to arrest the four kidnappers who fled during the confrontation with the force that stormed their hideout to free the foreign tourists. Fears are growing that those men might seek vengeance for their three comrades who were slain in the confrontation.
Sanaa, weekly 5/1/99 (People's Nasserite Unionist Organization) -The Yemeni opposition parties have decided to nominate an agreed upon figure to compete in the next October presidential elections. -The only kidney dialysis unit in Hodeida has closed down two weeks ago due to absence of important materials. The unit had halted its services for the same reason last year which led to the death of 15 patients suffering from kidney failure. -Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are exerting intensified diplomatic efforts to foil the convening of the extraordinary Arab summit called for by Yemen to discuss the American-British aggressions against Iraq. -The Sanaa International Airport security has been detaining messages sent from the National-Islamic conference in Beirut to a number of Yemeni personalities for the second consecutive week. -Branches of political parties in Hajja have urged the government to break the siege on Iraq, recall Yemeni ambassadors from the U.S. and Britain and expel their ambassadors from Sanaa. Article Summary:
Sanaa, weekly 3/1/99 (Independent) -Academic sources in the Aden University have said that students of a number of faculties were being pressured to join the ruling People's General Conference. -The doctors and pharmacists syndicate-Taiz branch has called for boycotting American and British products in general and medical products in particular following the dual attacks on Iraq in mid December. -There are increasing hit and run accidents in front of the Ta'awon part in Taiz with no apparent moves by the concerned authorities to check the speeding cars. Three persons, including two women, were killed in such incidents recently.
Sanaa, weekly 5/1/99 (Independent) -The Foreign Ministry has denied that any of its officials had ever made interviews with the Israeli enemy media. -Hodeida religious scholars have called for boycotting American products charging that country of leading a new crusade against the Moslem Nation. -A Yemeni national living in Nigeria has sent a message to AL BALAGH complaining from the deteriorating situation facing his countrymen there, drawing the President and government's attention to the racial practices against them in that African country. -Mistakes were found in a number of copies of the Holy Koran in the Yemeni market. The Ministry of Endowments is called upon to interfere and withdraw the copies by Al Yamama Printing Press from the libraries selling them.
Aden, weekly 5/1/99 (Independent) -An American war vessel left Aden harbor last Monday night to an unknown destination. -Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party in Damt was killed by unknown armed men who shot at him Thursday before last while he was leaving the mosque. -The homicide department in Lahj had detained two Education Bureau employees for ten days on baseless charges. -Scarcity of wheat in Lahj governorate, according to an official source there, was due to the fact that the Yemeni internal trade company supplied only half of the 8,000 sacks allocated to the governorate each month. Article Summary:
Sanaa, daily 10/1/99 (Independent) -A group of three armed men kidnapped a British engineer two days ago in Mareb, demanding the release of a prisoner from Al Juaid from the Jahm tribe. -Yemen is to table a request with the GATT organization to win an observer seat, which is not expected before five years. -Four people were killed and five others still missing after their fibre glass boat capsized due to high waves off Hodeida last Friday. -Yemeni expatriates are leaving Somalia to nearby Ethiopia in big numbers, posing problems to the expatriate community in Addis Ababa. -The Governor of Shabwa told AL AYAM that his governorate's oil production of 20,000 barrels a day is expected to increase to 50,000 b/d by next March.
Sanaa, weekly 7/1/99 (Independent) -Tourist experts predict that Yemen will suffer heavy losses in the touristic sector following the bloody incidents in Abyan over a week ago in which four tourists were killed. -Fears are rising that the Jihad group, which kidnapped the 16 tourists last week, was preparing a retaliatory strike after three of its members were killed in the Yemeni security's storming operation to free the hostages. -The Aden Security Chief Col. Ali Mohammed Saleh has said that the British investigators' mission was not clear and that he asked them to return to Sanaa because he had nothing to tell them about the Abyan incidents.
Sanaa, weekly 7/1/99 (Yemeni Socialist Party) -Tensions rose high along the Saudi-Yemeni borders last week after Yemeni troops advanced deep into areas where Saudi forces were positioned in Al Harja - Ramah axis. -The state's supreme political authority had severely reprimanded senior officials of the Interior Ministry and the political security following the incidents of the kidnapped foreign tourists in Abyan. -The Yemeni authorities had reached a secret agreement with foreign parties to release and deport Adnan Nanekly, Spanish of Syrian origin, few weeks after he was indicted for sabotage operations. A court in Aden passed a capital punishment against him.
Sanaa, weekly 7/1/99 (Yemen Armed Forces) -Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Abdul Qader Ba Jammal has underlined that intensified consultations were under way to ensure that all Arab countries would attend the 24 January meeting in Cairo. -The Health Minister, Dr. Abdullah Abdul Wali Nasher has announced that his Ministry was planning the establishment of a national center to combat malaria in Yemen and the reoperation of the cancer centers in Sanaa and Aden in 1999. -Minister of Expatriate Affairs Dr. Ahmad Ali Al Bishari has declared that the general expatriates conference is to be held in Sanaa next May with the participation of 200 figures from various countries. Article Summary:
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