Yemen

November, 2018

  • 27 November

    VP meets with U.S. Ambassador to our country

    RIYADH-SABAVice President (Lt Gen) Ali Mohssen Saleh met on Tuesday with the American Ambassador to our country Mathew Tuller. Discussions focused on the latest developments and underway efforts to establish peace in our country. The Vice President expressed appreciation for the American administration for its principled stance toward Yemen’s security …

  • 27 November

    Zayani: GCC provided $18 bln assistance to Yemen over three years

    KUWAIT-SABAThe Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation CouncilAbdullatifAl Zayani said that the GCC countries have provided a total of 18 billion US dollars to Yemen over the past three years. Speaking at an annual Conference on Effective Partnership and Information Sharing for Better Humanitarian Action held in Kuwait on Tuesday,he …

  • 27 November

    FM, UK ambassador discuss preparations for peace

    RIYADH-SABAForeign Minister Khaled Alyemany and the British ambassador to Yemen Michael Aaron discussed the ongoing preparations for consultations that will hopefully bring a lasting political solution to the Yemeni conflict that resulted from the Houthi coup in 2014.  They discussed the efforts of the government especially the central bank to …

  • 27 November

    Human Rights Minister calls on UN to help Yemen with capacity building

    ADEN-SABAMinister of Human Rights Mohammed Askar has called upon the United Nations to provide Yemen with capacity-building and technical assistance to enable it to investigate all allegations of human rights abuses.  In a meeting with the visiting UN delegation consisting of the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour …

  • 27 November

    Al-Yemany, U.S. Ambassador discuss peace efforts

    RIYADH-SABAForeign Minister Khaled Al-Yemany met Tuesday with American Ambassador to our country Mathew Tuller. Discussions focused on underway efforts made by the UN envoy to hold a round of new peace consultations in December. Al-Yemany stated that the government is positively responding to the call by the UN envoy to …

  • 27 November

    Yemeni-Kenyan relations discussed in Nairobi

    NAIROBI-SABAUnder-Secretary of Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Dr Mansour Bajash met Tuesday with the Kenyan Deputy Foreign Minister Aba Bu Terrah on the sideline of the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference. Yemeni-Kenyan bilateral ties and cooperation were a central of focus of Bajash’s conversations with Terrah. Bajash briefed Terrah on the …

  • 27 November

    Hadi appoints new ministers, deputies, other state officials

    ADEN-SABAPresident Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi issued republican resolutions on Monday appointing new ministers, governors and other state officials.  He named Najeeb Mansour Hameed Al-Awj a minister for Planning and International Cooperation; Mohammed Abdullah Saleh Naser al-Anani a minister for Electricity and Power; Ali Haytham Ali Abdullah a minister for Justice ; …

  • 27 November

    Yemen, Russia discuss educational cooperation

    RIYADH-SABAMinister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Hussein Basalamah and the Russian Ambassador to Yemen Vladimir Didushkin discussed higher education cooperation and cultural exchange between Yemen and Russia especially the scholarships Russia offers to Yemen in the engineering and technical fields.  They discussed increasing these scholarships and the renewal of …

  • 26 November

    Yemen participates in Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi

    NAIROBI-SABA Yemen participated in the inauguration of the two-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Monday.  Yemen’s delegation to the event is headed by Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Dr. Mansour Bajjash and Deputy Environment Minister Ammar Al Awlaki. The conference will discuss the …

  • 24 November

    VP: We’ll react positively to peace options based on three ToR

    RIYADH-SABAVice President (Lt Gen) Ali Mohssen Saleh stated that legitimate leadership headed by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is going to deal constructively with sustainable peace options that is based on the three Terms of Reference (ToR) that puts down the coup and restore the state. His statement came as he …