On
October 24th, a tropical storm hit southeastern
Yemen. Torrential rains lasted for thirty hours
resulting in dangerous flash floods. Nearly 200
people died; many were crushed inside their
collapsed houses. President Ali Abdullah Saleh
declared a state of emergency in Hadhramaut ...
DEMINING YEMEN
Salwa was only eleven
years old when her life changed radically. She was
going for water with her sister, walking down from
her village to the well. It was a day like every
other day, but on this morning her life would change
forever. In an instant, everything went black and
she does not remember what happened. Salwa woke up
to find that she no longer had legs. She is now ...
Since
Yemen’s first ever elections in 1993, the slogan
“Free and Fair Elections” has been used, and
sometimes abused, by Yemen’s political parties
before upcoming elections.
Now it
is less than six months until the April 27, 2009
election day for Yemen’s fourth parliamentary
elections. However, the political parties are still
in a stalemate. They have been talking ...
Ali is
a 12 year old who gets on the dabab (minibus) by
himself every morning at 7:00 to go to school. He is
dressed in his olive green uniform – standard
throughout Yemen – and carries school books with
him, sometimes stopping on the way for a snack.
School starts at 7:30, when he gets into formation
with other students and sings songs or learns new
information about the school. He takes classes from
8:00 until 1:00, when he goes home, eats lunch, and
...
IS
YEMEN READY FOR A STOCK EXCHANGE? “Stock
has many economic benefits, such as reinvesting
expatriate capital, accumulating savings, and
attracting investments that will help gain interest
in different areas,” said Professor Saif Al Asali.
Al Asali is extremely knowledgeable on the issue of
a stock exchange in Yemen. During his appointment
...
Yemen possesses an aesthetic consciousness evident
in every mud brick building trimmed in white gypsum,
the intricate designs of stained glass qamariyyas,
the colorful sitara, the elegant embroidery in a
shawl draped across an old man’s back, and the
arabesques and inlaid calligraphy that ... mosque
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