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YEMEN is facing a bizarre constitutional tangle over next year's presidential election. The constitution says that the election - the first by a direct popular vote - must be competitive, with at least two candidates. But that is easier said than done. Only two parties can muster the 31 members of…
THE families of the five Britons held in Yemen on suspicion of terrorism claimed yesterday the men had been tortured and forced to sign false confessions.
Speaking at a press conference at Birmingham's Central Mosque, Rashad Yaqoob, a spokesman for the families, said they had been treated…
WITH ADEN'S water and electricity cut off, Northern forces established inside the city boundary, and reportedly in control of the airport, and the self-appointed "president" nowhere to be seen, the breakaway Democratic Republic of Yemen showed every sign, by the second week in July, of being on the…
RECENT EVENTS have cost Yemen dearly. Tourism - which brought in $200 million last year - is down 80%. Yemenia, the national airline, has cut its European flights by 75% and is facing losses of $8 million by March as a result. One recent flight from London carried only four passengers.
The British…
Report by Dr Hans Blix, executive chairman of Unmovic, to the UN Security Council
14 February 2003
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Let me begin today's briefing with a short account of the work being performed by UNMOVIC in Iraq. We have continued to build up our capabilities. The regional office in Mosul is now fully…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International, 23 January 2004
YEMEN, famous in recent years mainly for qat, kidnappings and kalashnikovs, became the unlikely venue earlier this month for an international conference on democracy, human rights and the International Criminal…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International, 22 October 1993
THE ELECTION of Yemen's new presidential council last week [October 11] was hailed by one western diplomat as "a model of democracy at work". More accurately, and less euphemistically, the country had a narrow…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International, 3 December 2004
The impending trial of a Yemeni cleric accused by the US of raising $20 million for al-Qaeda has been thrown into confusion after the main witness - another Yemeni - set fire to himself outside the gates of the…
IN THE EARLY hours of March 15, British police raided the home of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the London-based imam, and arrested him along with two other men for questioning under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. After three days all were released on condition that they report to the police again on May…
A statement of principles by the Iraqi National Coalition. The document is undated but it was posted (in English) on the organisation's website on 12 January 2002
Introduction
Iraq, the cradle of civilisation, and the land between two great rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, is ruled by a brutal and…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
