Fighting between the Houthi rebels, government forces and pro-government tribesmen continued in northern Yemen yesterday despite a short-lived ceasefire and the death toll over the last few days of conflct may now be as high as 50.
The Yemen Observer reports:
Local sources said that the… Read more
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21st July 2010
It looks as if the on-off Houthi war in northern Yemen may be on again following two days of clashes that have left at least 22 people dead and more than 50 injured.
The German news agency, citing tribal sources, reports that seven pro-government tribesmen and five Houthi rebels died in battles on… Read more
19th July 2010
After months of delay, Yemen's ruling party, the General People's Congress, has signed an agreement on national dialogue with the opposition alliance, the Joint Meeting Parties. The goal is to hammer out electoral and constitutional reforms ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for April… Read more
16th July 2010
Houthi rebels in northern Yemen ambushed a convoy of police and pro-government tribesmen on Wednesday, killing three officers and eight tribesmen. The convoy was reportedly carrying food supplies in the Majaz district of Saada province.
The attack came came amid growing tensions between the Houthis… Read more
15th July 2010
More than 20 armed men attacked two adjacent security/intelligence buildings in southern Yemen yesterday. As many as five people may have been killed.
The attack occurred in Zinjibar (Abyan province). The Yemen Observer says:
The attackers who were masked and riding motorcycles fired machineguns,… Read more
13th July 2010
The ceasefire agreement that halted the all-out conflict between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels last February seems to be gradually breaking down. A headline in the Yemen Observer predicts that a seventh round in the war is "imminent".
The paper quotes Houthi sources as saying that an… Read more
11th July 2010
Five Yemeni oil workers were kidnapped in the sparsely-populated northern province of al-Jawf late on Thursday, and the interior ministry is blaming the Houthi rebels.
"The Houthis captured five staff from an oil company in Marib along with their car when they were inspecting fuel stations in the… Read more
7th July 2010
A Yemeni security officer named as Ali Khanbash survived an assassination attempt at his home in Zinjibar yesterday, al-Sahwa reports. Another person was injured.
It was the fourth such attack in the southern Abyan province in the space of a month. On July 3, an army officer was found shot dead in… Read more
6th July 2010
A remarkable investigation by a Yemeni newspaper, al-Masdar, has discovered that slavery persists in Yemen, long after if was officially abolished. Five hundred or more people are said to be living in servitude in parts of Hajja and Hodeida provinces. Sheikhs and members of the local authorities… Read more
4th July 2010
The body of a Yemeni army officer was found in the Khanfar district of Abyan province yesterday, "close to the site of the army unit in which he served," according to a local official. He had been shot.
In a similar incident on Thursday, also in Abyan province, an intelligence officer was shot dead… Read more
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