Yemen news items 1999 (Apr-Jun)

Yemen chronologyindex


Source Date Headline
AFP 3 Apr 99 Czech Republic to invest in new Aden free zone
AFP 3 Apr 99 China vows to expand its 40-year ties with Yemen
BBC 5 Apr 99 Blair intervenes on Britons' behalf
BBC 5 Apr 99 Judge in Yemeni terrorism trial warns defence team
AFP 5 Apr 99 Judge issues final warning to defence in Yemen terror trial
AFP 5 Apr 99 Blair demands medical for British suspects in Yemen
AFP 5 Apr 99 Defence lawyers still boycotting Yemen terror trial
RTN 5 Apr 99 Yemen set for deal on Czech-built fighter aircraft
AFP 5 Apr 99 Saudi, Yemeni officials in new bid to end longrunning border dispute
AFP 5 Apr 99 Yemeni court offers Britons' lawyers some unsupervised access
AFP 5 Apr 99 Singapore Power discusses construction of power station in Yemen
BBC 6 Apr 99 Yemen-Saudi border talks
RTN 7 Apr 99 Court names new defence team in Yemen trial
RTN 7 Apr 99 Yemen opposition party says official assassinated
RTN 7 Apr 99 Czech Vodochody says sells jet trainers to Yemen
AFP 7 Apr 99 Saudi-Yemeni border committee winds up session
BBC 7 Apr 99 Assassination in Yemen
BBC 7 Apr 99 Yemen trial delayed for third time
AFP 8 Apr 99 Ukrainian plane carrying guns to Yemen intercepted
RTN 8 Apr 99 Yemen seeks to double borrowing - minister
RTN 9 Apr 99 Moldova detains plane with handguns bound for Yemen
AFP 9 Apr 99 Yemen government says vendetta behind opposition slaying
AFP 9 Apr 99 Yemen, Malaysia in energy talks
AFP 11 Apr 99 Yemen to hold first presidential elections in October
AFP 12 Apr 99 Yemen government promises to reform electoral lists
AFP 13 Apr 99 Yemen to get 700 million dollars in World Bank loans
AFP 13 Apr 99 Yemen president urges opposition to name election candidates
AFP 14 Apr 99 Boycott lawyers back in Yemen court for bomb trial of Britons
AFP 15 Apr 99 Yemen to invest $250 million on oil fields
AFP 15 Apr 99 Yemen judge lets independent doctor see bomb plot suspects
RTN 15 Apr 99 Yemen court says doctors to check torture claims
RTN 15 Apr 99 IMF praises Yemen's coping with oil price drop
AFP 16 Apr 99 Yemen sends aid to Kosovo refugees
RTN 16 Apr 99 Yemen sends tents,blankets to Kosovo Moslems
AFP 17 Apr 99 Yemeni FM in Iran for talks on boosting ties
AFP 17 Apr 99 Yemeni president welcomes Algerian election results
AFP 17 Apr 99 Yemen foils attempted kidnapping of judge, arrests 10
AFP 19 Apr 99 Suspects in Yemen terror trial deny confessions
AFP 19 Apr 99 Yemen's ruling party offers to vote in opposition candidates
RTN 20 Apr 99 Yemen teenager goes on trial for fatal explosion
RTN 20 Apr 99 Arab fund grants Yemen $59 million loan
RTN 16 Apr 99 Yemen sends tents, blankets to Kosovo Moslems
SAB 20 Apr 99 Yemen to Host Democracy Summit June 27-29 1999
SAB 20 Apr 99 Yemeni Parliament: Privatisation
RTN 21 Apr 99 Briton in Yemen trial says confessed under torture
AFP 21 Apr 99 Yemeni man fathers sextuplets after 10 years of sterility
AFP 21 Apr 99 Yemen terror defendant says he was tortured into confessing
AFP 21 Apr 99 Four tribesmen die in Yemen blood feud
RTN 22 Apr 99 British investigators in Yemen over Moslem militant
AFP 22 Apr 99 Yemen announces plan to resolve Kosovo crisis
AFP 22 Apr 99 British on trail of Abu Hamza in Yemen
MEI 23-Apr-99 Law and order
AFP 24 Apr 99 Yemen terror defendant says confession made under torture threat
RTN 26 Apr 99 Briton says he received military training in Yemen
AFP 26 Apr 99 US commander denies Washington wants bases in Yemen
AFP 26 Apr 99 US favours Yemen proposition on Kosovo: ambassador
AFP 26 Apr 99 Defence says confession in Yemen terror trial dated before arrest
AFP 27 Apr 99 Yemeni president meet US Gulf commander
BBC 27 Apr 99 Briton disowns Yemen confession
RTN 28 Apr 99 Briton tells Yemen court he confessed under threat
AFP 28 Apr 99 Yemen introduces new austerity measures
AFP 28 Apr 99 Yemen terror suspect says confession extracted by torture threat
SABA 28 Apr 99 Republican Decree Issued Today
SABA 28 Apr 99 Government Has to Tighten Its Belt. President's Letter
AFP 1 May 99 Verdict due in Yemeni Islamic kidnap case
AFP 2 May 99 Yemeni finance minister accused of mismanagement
AFP 3 May 99 Two murderers executed in public in Yemen
AFP 3 May 99 All Britons, Algerians on trial in Yemen deny confessions
AFP 3 May 99 Opposition warns against US military facilities in Yemen
BBC 5 May 99 Three face execution after Yemeni trial
RTN 5 May 99 Yemen lawyer says death sentence void
RTN 5 May 99 Britain against Yemen travel after murder verdict
RTN 5 May 99 Three to die for tourist killings in Yemen
BBC 5 May 99 Abu Hamzah criticises Yemeni government
AFP 5 May 99 Islamic cleric Abu Hamza warns Yemen not to carry out death sentences
AFP 5 May 99 Three Islamists condemned to death for deadly kidnapping in Yemen
RTN 6 May 99 Yemen Islamists' execution would be avenged--Masri
RTN 6 May 99 Prosecution says Britons admit to militant links
RTN 6 May 99 Yemen Islamists' execution would be avenged--Masri
AFP 6 May 99 Yemen medical report says no evidence of torture on terror suspects
RTN 7 May 99 Yemen dismisses threats over death sentence-papers
AFP 7 May 99 Yemen rejects threats by Islamic firebrand to topple regime
RTN 8 May 99 Netherlands says it will cut aid to 60 countries
RTN 8 May 99 Gang warns Yemen minister over death sentence
RTN 8 May 99 Britain not for Yemen death verdict-diplomat
AFP 8 May 99 Yemeni ministers under threat after death sentences in kidnap trial
RTN 9 May 99 Briton on terror charge in Yemen granted bail
AFP 9 May 99 First candidate for Yemeni presidential elections
AFP 9 May 99 Briton in Yemen bomb trial released on bail for health reasons
AFP 9 May 99 British suspect in Yemen bomb trial released on bail
AFP 10 May 99 Islamic militant to be questioned by British authorities over Yemen ties
AFP 10 May 99 Yemeni FM to make landmark Kuwait visit
RTN 10 May 99 Yemen foreign minister to visit Kuwait on Saturday
RTN 11 May 99 CanOxy posts deeper quarterly loss but ups spending
RTN 12 May 99 Yemeni sentenced to death warns of unrest
RTN 12 May 99 Britons in Yemen terror trial want medics quizzed
RTN 13 May 99 Egyptian man detained in Canada as security risk
RTN 13 May 99 Independent newspaper editor beaten in Yemen
RTN 13 May 99 Yemen to issue tender for GSM provider this year
AFP 13 May 99 Yemeni villagers shoot dead teenager after rape
AFP 12 May 99 Sick Briton in Yemen bomb trial still in jail
RTN 15 May 99 Briton in Yemen trial admits signing confession
AFP 15 May 99 Yemeni court rejects defence call in bomb trial of Britons
AFP 15 May 99 Yemeni FM makes landmark visit to reopen embassy in Kuwait
RTN 16 May 99 Lawyers appeal Yemen death sentences on Islamists
AFP 16 May 99 Kuwait and Yemen restore full ties eight years after Gulf war
WP 12 May 99 The Democracy Club
RTN 17 May 99 Polaroid to Provide Identification Cards in Guinea and Yemen
RTN 17 May 99 Briton in Yemen denies terrorism charge
RTN 17 May 99 Yemen executes five for family murders
PA 17 May 99 Bail extended for Muslim cleric
RTN 19 May 99 New blast damages Yemen's Marib oil pipeline
RTN 19 May 99 Yemen hikes fuel prices, not petrol
MEI 21-May-99 Death sentence dilemma
RTN 21 May 99 Yemeni president gives up qat in anti-drug drive
RTN 21 May 99 Saleh urges all Yemeni parties to contest poll
BBC 21 May 99 New Yemen campaign against qat
RTN 23 May 99 Britons tell Yemeni court of sex abuse in prison
RTN 23 May 99 Yemen speaker condemns Turkish measures against MP
AFP 23 May 99 Yemeni women rally for Turkish headscarf MP
AFP 23 May 99 Britons tell of sexual torture in Yemen
AFP 21 May 99 Yemeni president calls for parties to elect presidential candidates
AFP 21 May 99 Three Yemeni teens killed by tiger
AFP 19 May 99 Yemen in gas export talks with four Asian states: president
AFP 18 May 99 Young Briton in Yemen trial says he signed confession at gunpoint
AFP 17 May 99 Landmine from 1994 civil war kills three Yemeni teenagers
RTN 24 May 99 Moslem cleric warns Yemen if sons found guilty
RTN 24 May 99 New blast hits Yemen's Marib oil pipeline
RTN 25 May 99 Militants threaten foreigners in Yemen
AFP 25 May 99 Islamic militants threaten to kill all foreigners in Yemen
AFP 25 May 99 Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan: diehard veterans of Afghan war
RTN 26 May 99 Lawyers in Yemen trial display "torture" photos
AFP 27 May 99 Yemen in half-hearted drive to give up favourite fix
RTN 27 May 99 Yemen arrests group plotting to attack foreigners
RTN 27 May 99 Economic ills keep Yemenis away from Internet
AFP 27 May 99 Yemeni interior ministry announces arrest of 15 "saboteurs"
RTN 30 May 99 Saudi lifts Horn of Africa livestock import ban
RTN 27 May 99 Unocal, Occidental Agree to Swap Interests In Bangladesh and Yemen E&P assets
RTN 26 May 99 Yemen offers help in Kuwaiti POW issue-official
RTN 18 Jun 99 Yemen presidential elections set for September 28
RTN 17 Jun 99 Transglobe Energy Corporation Announces Results Of Appraisal Drilling In Yemen
RTN 31 May 99 Yemen lifts subsidy on soft wheat flour
RTN 1 Jun 99 Yemen signs $24mln airport contract with Saudi firm
RTN 2 Jun 99 Prominent Yemeni editor killed in road accident
RTN 2 Jun 99 Britain offers to house ailing defendant in Yemen
SAB 2 Jun 99 Yemen Times Editor-in-Chief passed away in car Accident
RTN 5 Jun 99 Yemen executes man for murder - newspaper
BBC 5 Jun 99 Drunken gunman kills Yemeni diplomat
BBC 5 Jun 99 Church stands bail for Yemen suspect
RTN 9 Jun 99 Yemen, Britain move towards better ties
RTN 9 Jun 99 Yemen raises deposit rate to help boost rial
RTN 10 Jun 99 Mrs. Clinton postpones trip to Israel
BBC 13 Jun 99 Yemen opposition challenge media
RTN 16 Jun 99 Militant appeals death sentence in Yemen
RTN 16 Jun 99 Egypt, Yemen discuss shipping line to boost trade
RTN 16 Jun 99 Lightning kills 16 in Yemen - newspaper
RTN 17 Jun 99 Transglobe Energy Corporation Announces Results Of Appraisal Drilling In Yemen
MEI 18-Jun-99 Weaning Yemen off qat?
RTN 18 Jun 99 Yemen presidential elections set for September 28
BBC 20 Jun 99 Eight die in Yemen tribal clash
BBC Jun 99 Verdict awaited in Yemen terror trial
RTN 22 Jun 99 Yemen urges Arabs, foreigners to invest in tourism
RTN 22 Jun 99 Yemen prosecution asks maximum penalty for Britons
RTN 23 Jun 99 Yemen militant tells his men not to launch attacks
BBC 23 Jun 99 Two die in Aden blast
AN 24 Jun 99 Saudi-Yemeni committee on border demarcation concludes latest session
RTN 24 Jun 99 Romania's main privatisation
GDN 26-Jun-99 Terrorists or tourists?
RTN 28 Jun 99 IMF approves $50 million payout for Yemen
AN 29 Jun 99 Meetings between Yemeni Socialist Party and Yemeni opposition leadership abroad
RTN 30 Jun 99 US-backed Yemen forum backs women, minority rights