National Dialogue : for release of Yemeni detainees

NDC members demonstrate for release of Yemeni detainees abroad

By Akram al-gaolahiNDC members staged a protest in the lobby of Sana'a's Movenpick Hotel on Monday to demand the release of Yemenis who are presently detained abroad.
In particular, the protesters are concerned over Yemeni detainees at the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Yemeni fishermen who are in detention in regional prisons. Some protesters did, however, also mention Yemenis who had disappeared as a result of extrajudicial arrests.
Among the slogans on the placards held up by the protesters were 'Oh, US - where are human rights at Guantanamo?' And 'Release Yemeni fishermen from foreign prisons'.
Arwa Abdu Othman, the chairwoman of the Working Group on Human Rights and Freedoms, said her group was working hard to address all rights issues - and individuals' rights in particular.
"In the end, we want our discussions to take the country into a new era. We are focusing on individual rights inside our society - or, rather, how to make the government or groups better provide for individuals' rights," said Othman.
Speaking about the importance of her group's tasks, she added, "Building an individual means building a country. If the individual's rights are lost in favor of political rights, a tragedy ensues".
Othman affirmed that the agenda for the Rights and Freedoms Working Group's was moving forward in a positive direction. She pointed out that the group's committees had finalized their preparatory tasks, such as developing guidelines for the constitution.
"So far, there is unanimity on key issues, including how to ensure equality of opportunity, freedom of speech, religious freedom, intellectual and cultural rights, and adherence to international conventions on human rights."

*NDC.COM

Children's Parliament

Children's Parliament questions NDC General Secretariat

By Akram al-gaolahi

Yemen Children's Parliament

The fifth conference of the Children's Parliament (CP) started early Saturday at the House of representatives under the slogan: (The Involvement of Children in Dialogue Conference between Reality and Rights).
At the meeting, the CP questioned the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Save the Children and the NDC General Secretariat, the Rights and Freedoms Committee, the State-building and Transitional justice Committee, the Civil Society Commission.
The conference also discussed the reasons for not involving the children in the National Dialogue Conference and what the dialogue will offer to the Children given the fact that children in Yemen are representing half of the population.

AL-GAOLAHI :there is no powerful electronic journalism in Yemen because of the weak infrastructure

AL-GAOLAHI :there is no powerful electronic journalism in Yemen because of the weak infrastructure

Sophie Elmenthaler

Akram Al- Gaolahi

The German website " Tintenkiller – Journalismus im Internet " , supported by the Evangelical School of Journalism " Evangelische Journalistenschule ", hosted the Senior Journalist and the person in charge of the Yemen Observer website; Mr. Akram Al-Gaolahi, in an a dialouge about the press in Yemen in general, and the electronic press in specific, addressing the most important issues, constraints and freedom of the press. Interviewed by Sophie Elmenthaler

Mr. / Akram Al-Gaolahi a journalist in Yemen Observer newspaper and a human rights activist and blogger-mail.
Sophie Elmenthaler : First tell us about yourself?
Akram Al- Gaolahi : My name is Akram Mohammed Al- Gaolahi, I was born in 1982 . I work is a journalist and human rights activist in Yemen and I am a senior journalist in the Yemen Observer newspaper, written in  English-language. I am a writer and blogger mail in several newspapers and websites.
Sophie Elmenthaler : Are there obstacles in journalism in Yemen .. What are these obstacles?

Akram Al- Gaolahi :Yes, there are a lot of problems and obstacles that hinder the reality of the Yemeni press in general and the electronic media in specific.
Journalism in Yemen faces many obstacles that increase the hassles of working in this field.
The most important of these difficulties lies in the deterioration of the security situation and the prosecution of journalists by security agencies, in addition to excluding those responsible for authorizing the important topics, and other assemblages taking place in the Yemeni press. And because of that, the officials in Yemen do not seem ready enough to cooperate with journalists in order to provide information of interest to citizens . In addition to the withholding of information and the reduction of the their flow.  Not mentioning the poor Internet service which is the most important impediment to electronic media in Yemen.
Sophie Elmenthaler : How much is the freedom in the electronic press in Yemen.

Akram Al- Gaolahi :We face a difficult situation in the freedom of the press. Yemen was ranked 169 in the world in freedom of the press, according to a report by "Reporters Without Borders" for the year 2013. The report described Yemen as still one of the most dangerous countries to journalists through the attacks and the difficulties and legal aspects encountered by a journalist during a practice done .
Also in online journalism in Yemen is facing many restrictions, most important are blocking and fear of tribal militant groups.
Sophie Elmenthaler : How do you express your opinion and how do you publish your attitude in the Internet?

Akram Al- Gaolahi :For me I work in the newspaper as well as an online publisher. I have my own blog in addition to social networks like Facebook, Twitter and blogs, etc.. I practice a small part of freedom in expression and the defense of rights and freedoms.
But with all this I do not feel complete freedom in the absence of security and the proliferation of armed groups and the weakness of the country.
Sophie Elmenthaler : Are there other points you would like to share with us like the most important difficulties that you face in journalistic work in Yemen?

Akram Al- Gaolahi :I like to add that some of the difficulties faced by the electronic press in Yemen.
- The lack of a broad user base of the Internet, this effective technique that transport information is still not accustomed to Yemeni society.
- Lack of training and contact with the experts in the electronic media, especially in Europe and America.
- Lack of electronic content in light of the weakness of informational configuration. The benefit of the contents of electronic media means knowing the sailing techniques on the Internet.
- The growing piracy websites, and in light of the absence of a legal frame that protects the publisher on the Internet.
- The absence of dual-media culture with the Yemeni individual, because of the newness of the media experience in Yemen.
- The political and tribal tendencies of trends of paper newspapers.
- Lack of a legal framework of electronic journalism in Yemen, due to the timeliness and speed of evolution.
- Publicity Policy-mail in Yemen and fear that comes with the business owners, due to their lack of knowledge in this field.
- The absence of scientific electronic training and rehabilitation, and the absence of electronic culture.
- The difficulty of financing.

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Online-Journalismus im Jemen

Keine Pressefreiheit ohne Infrastruktur

Akram Al-Gaolah

 

Akram al-Gaolahi, Jahrgang 1982, arbeitet als Journalist  und Aktivist im Jemen. Er ist Redakteur für den Yemen Observer, eine große englischsprachige Zeitung und betreibt sein eigenes Blog.

Übersetzt und die Fragen gestellt hat Sophie Elmenthaler. Von einem Skype-Gespräch mussten wir wegen des in Sanaa ständig drohenden Stromausfalls absehen.

Sophie Elmenthaler

Gibt es in ihrem Land Einschränkungen für den Journalismus und wenn ja, was für welche?

Ja, es gibt viele Probleme und Einschränkungen, die den Journalismus allgemein und den Online-Journalismus im Besonderen beinflussen. Die Arbeit in diesem Beruf ist sehr anstrengend. Die Sicherheitslage hat sich sehr verschlechtert und Journalisten werden von den Sicherheitskräften verfolgt. Außerdem bekommen wir zu wichtigen Ereignissen keinen Zugang und sind auch sonst Repressionen von offizieller Seite ausgesetzt. Es gibt keine ausreichende Bereitschaft, mit Journalisten zusammenzuarbeiten, um die Bürger mit den wichtigen Informationen zu versorgen.

Was den Onlinejournalismus anbelangt, werden Webseiten gesperrt und Informationen vorenthalten. Außerdem sind die Internetdienste schlecht.

Wie frei ist der Onlinejournalismus im Jemen?

Hinsichtlich der Pressefreiheit ist die Situation insgesamt schwer. Nach einerStudie von Reporter ohne Grenzen von 2013 nimmt Jemen im internationalen Vergleich nur den 169. Platz von 179 ein. Der Jemen gehört immer noch zu den gefährlichsten Ländern für Journalisten, was Anschläge, allgemeine Schwierigkeiten und den rechtlichen Rahmen anbelangt. Für den Journalismus im Internet gilt das gleiche. Die Hauptprobleme sind, dass Seiten geblockt werden und man sich vor radikalen Stammesgruppen fürchten muss.

Wie publizieren Sie ihre Meinung im Netz?

Ich arbeite ja nicht nur bei der gedruckten Zeitung, sondern habe auch eine eigene Website, blogge und bin in verschiedenen sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook oder Twitter und unterwegs. Da kann ich schon Meinungsfreiheit praktizieren und die Freiheitsrechte verteidigen. Ich fühle mich aber trotzdem nicht vollständig frei, weil es keine Sicherheit gibt, sich überall bewaffnete Gruppen ausbreiten und der Staat schwach ist.

Welche Probleme hat der Online-Journalismus Ihrer Meinung nach allgemein?

Im Jemen gibt es noch keine breite Basis an Internetnutzern und keine Medienkutlur für die neuen Medien. Da die Informationssituation insgesamt schwach ist, gibt es auch einen Mangel an Inhalten im Netz. Wenn es mehr journalistische Inhalte online geben soll, dann müssen die Leute auch wissen, wie man im Internet surft. Ebenso fehlt es an Aus- und Fortbildung für Informatiker und an Praxis und Kontakt mit erfahrenen Onlinejournalisten, vor allem aus Europa und den USA. Die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen sind auch noch unterentwickelt, daher kommt es häufig zu Problemen mit Web-Piraterie, weil Autoren im Netz nicht ausreichend geschützt sind. Die Finanzierung ist schwierig, weil viele Unternehmer sich mit dem Netz nicht auskennen und sehr misstrauisch mit Online-Werbung und Anzeigen sind. Und zu guter Letzt bevorzugen die Politiker und die Stammesangehörigen (also die einflussreichen Gesellschaftsschichten, A. d. R. ) gedruckte Zeitungen
 Journalismus im Internet *
http://jg10.ejs-training.de/tintenkiller/onlinejournalismus-jemen/ 

Yemen: Rock Slide in the Capital Sana'a

Yemen: Rock Slide in the Capital Sana'a

By Akram al-gaolahiThe capital Sana'a witnessed on Thursday evening a rock slide next to the Turkish Schools in Asser area, damaging two cars. No other casualties have been reported, however.
The rock slide caused by heavy rains in the area overlooking the capital, has blocked the road and stopped traffic on the Sana'a-Hodeida main road

Sa’ada group calls for implementation of Tech. Committee’s 20 Points

Sa’ada group calls for implementation of Tech. Committee’s 20 Points

By Akram al-gaolahi
The Sa’ada Working Group has called for the completion of initialization procedures which were approved by the NDC Technical Committee and represented in the committee’s twenty points.
In a statement which was released earlier today, the group demanded the creation of an appropriate atmosphere for team members to complete their aims.
The following is the text of the group’s statement:
Sa’ada Issue Group Statement to save the twenty points
Based on the Sa’ada Issue group's keenness for the National Dialogue Conference’s activities to meet with success, and after having completed its general and specific work plans, our group stresses the need to complete the initialization processes which were adopted by the National Dialogue Conference.
Our group calls for the creation of an appropriate atmosphere for our group’s objectives to be carried out and for the Sa’ada Issue group to begin implementing its detailed plan in a positive atmosphere.
The Sa’ada Issue Working Group emphasizes that it will continue to work in accordance with the highest feeling of national responsibility.
NDC’s working groups continue convening their meetings                                                                   
The nine working groups emanating from the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) continued their meetings on Monday.
The working group on army-building devoted its meeting today to discuss and identify the data and information required for the four teams emanating from the group.
The working group on the issue of Saada discussed the terms of its detailed plan and the teams that will carry out the field tasks of the plan, which aimed at studying the roots of the issue and its manifestations and implications.
The group stressed, in a statement issued at the conclusion of its meeting today, the need to implement the twenty points proposed by the Technical Committee to prepare for the NDC in order to ensure the creation of all appropriate atmospheres and climates for the success of the dialogue.
Meanwhile, the State-building group continued reviewing the international experiences in the constitutional field through lectures provided by local and international experts in this field.
The working group on the independence of bodies continued, in its meeting today,  the discussion of topics on its agenda.
In the meeting, the Head of the group reviewed a presentation about the independence of bodies in some of the Arab and foreign constitutions and laws to take advantage of them when preparing constitutional and legal formulas to ensure the independence of the bodies.
In this regard, the teams emanating from the group endowments, Zakat, Dar Al-Ifta and water, environment, qat and media reviewed their plans and mechanisms to implement them in the field.

President Hadi praises NDC

 By Akram al-gaolahi

President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi chaired, on Thursday the first meeting of the presidium of the comprehensive National Dialogue Conference and its General Secretariat.
At the outset of the meeting, President Hadi expressed his satisfaction with the NDC’s successful achievements that have been made so far, since its inception on the eighteenth of March. A full month ago today.
He said: “Our meeting today comes one month after we took on the practical program of the conference with greater confidence.”
He pointed to the support that Yemen had received from the Arab Summit, which was held late last March in Qatar’s Doha.
 The Doha Declaration also included the Arab nation’s keenness on Yemen’s security, stability and unity.
He noted that in all his meetings on the sidelines of the conference, he found all the solidarity, support and satisfaction for Yemen’s success in light of the GCC deal.
He also spoke of the nature of his visit to Russian, and its great results that serve as mutual relations between both countries in various fields of investment, trade and economic development.
After that, the NDC practical program was discussed on various aspects, in addition to all kinds of  security breaches, whether through power grids bombing or any other acts aimed at destabilizing the country.
He also stressed the need for strong reaction to such acts that are against and beyond law and order.

Eritrean navy boats attack Yemeni fishing boats

By Akram al-gaolahi

Security sources in Thabab Directorate said that Eritrean boats from the Eritrean navy chased Yemeni fishing boats at sea inside the Yemeni territory, opposite of the Thabab coast, held four of them,  and lead them at gun point to one of the Eritrean archipelagos.
The Interior Ministry said in its website, according to security authorities in the Directorate, that the Eritrean navy boats fired at one of the boats during their chase of a number of Yemeni fishing boats , explaining to the security Media Center that the boat which was shot by the  Eritrean boats experienced some damages, and was rescued with 2 of its crew on board by local fishing boats, pointing out that they informed the 17th  brigade of the navy which is stationed in Thabab so as take the appropriate measures.

Million Yemeni children suffering malnutrition

 By Akram al-gaolahi

Minister of Health Ahmed Qasem al-Ansi, said the malnutrition in Yemen exceeded according to the Ministry last two years’ statistics all international emergency standards and the serious boundaries of WHO, due to existence of 15 percent of the under 5 year children suffering from chronic malnutrition, amounting in some Provinces like Hodeida to 35 percent.
Dr. Ansi Said, "  nearly 967000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, as 276000 of them are exposed to risk of death, while more than two million children suffer from chronic malnutrition, which threatens with disaster unless it is addressed  through immediate, health, nutrition and sectoral   short-and long-term interventions. "
The health Minister called for the need of coordination of efforts of the  international and local organizations, working in the health fields in Yemen to coordinate with the Ministry of Health in accordance with its health plans and programs, especially in facing the malnutrition phenomenon in Yemen.
The Minister pointed to the level of the problem in Yemen during an expanded meeting last Monday with the donors, the civil organizations and businessmen within a national campaign for improvement and advocacy to face malnutrition, it’s humanitarian, social and health impacts, which extend to include the different aspects of life that will hinder the humanitarian and economic development.
The Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Dr. Mohammed al-Sa’di stressed the importance of joining efforts to overcome all the challenges which hinder the development process and to adopt a clear vision for a better future of Yemen.
He pointed  that the malnutrition in Yemen comes as a result of administrative dysfunction, which prevailed in Yemen within the last fifty years under political conflict on the expense of development, food, agriculture and economy.
In a related issue, the Ministry of Health, organized a meeting with media on the sidelines of the expanded meeting for the senior officials, donors, international organizations and businessmen, within the national advocacy campaign, to face the malnutrition problems, under the slogan of “malnutrition is a hindrance to development and its combat is the responsibility of all.
The meeting, chaired by the Deputy Minister for the Radio and TV sector, Ahmed Nasser al- Homati, and Deputy Minister of Health and Population for the Care Sector, Majid al-Jonaid, reviewed a number of clarification regarding the malnutrition in Yemen, its reasons, the mechanisms of facing it  and how to join governmental, international organizations and other concerned parts efforts.
The Deputy Minister of Information, emphasized at the meeting the importance of the exploitation of the Ministry of Health and Population the area designated  in the satellite channels, especially in Saba Channel which dedicated daily eight hours for the health education and awareness program, while it designated the other two thirds of its program for sports and tourism.
The representatives of WHO, Jollian Hernis, the UNISEF, Director of the Nutrition Department at the Ministry of Health Dr. Lina al-Iriani, General Director of National Center for Information and Health Awareness, Dr. Abdul-Salam Salam spoke at the meeting of the size and impacts of malnutrition and the importance of addressing it by all means, taking into account that nutrition is a basic element in the development strategy.

Chaos in the dialogue conference hall

By: Akram Al-Gaolahi

A security source in the national dialogue conference said that one person carrying a membership card for the dialogue conference under the name of “Nasser al-Sharif," the representative of young people, from  Marib, slapped  an officer in the national security and engaged in a fight with him.  
The source noted that the security had arrested the person and it was  discovered   later that he was a member of the dialogue conference "Nasser al-Sharif," which represents a list of the youth. 
The Yemen observer reporter said that the matter became more complex when one of the soldiers attacked the member, Khaled Algesha  though he was not a part of the dispute.   
“Do you agree on the slapping of security officers,” a member of the dialogue conference, Abdallah Mugaydea asked the other participants. 
After that,  one of the National Security slapped a member of the national dialogue who was standing in the gate of the hall; though, the problem was solved.  
An official source at the General Secretariat of the comprehensive national dialogue conference explained the reasons that caused the problem. He said that the dispute started when the security seized a participation card in the conference under the name Nasser bin Ahmed Sharif but the card was seized by Nasser bin Ahmed Sharif’s bodyguard.        


The source pointed out that when attempting to handle this matter, a verbal dispute broke out between the NDC member and a security guard, resulting in the escalation of the dispute into clashes that reached the NDC member Khalid al-Ghaishi who wasn't a part of the dispute.

Yemeni activist Bushra al-Maqtri wins distinctive democracy leaders award

By Akram al-gaolahi 
The American democracy in Middle East project, OMED, honored Friday in Washington  the Yemeni political activist and writer Bushra al-Maqtri, head of the liberal youth organization, among four who won the distinctive democratic leadership prize.
The celebration included giving prizes and honorary certificates to three other persons besides the Yemeni activist, chosen by the American POMED organization, for honoring as distinctive democratic leaderships this year.  
They are Ambassador Marc Palmar Vice Chairman of Freedom House and speechwriter of  three former Presidents and six foreign ministers in the United States, the U.S. media person Lara Sterakian from the  "Syria in-depth" Foundation, correspondent  of ABC network and the earlier Bloomberg channel in the Arabian Gulf and Ibrahim  Al-Hodaibi an Egyptian political activist and researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies in the House of wisdom in Cairo.
The Yemeni writer and political activist al-Maqtari spoke at the ceremony, dedicating this international prize to her family, colleagues, and Dr. Yasin Saeed Noman, expressing her appreciation to winning this prize.
Following the award ceremony the American organization organized a “silent auction” for supporting its democracy promotion efforts in the Middle East region.
The award ceremony was attended by a number of American, Academic, media and political personalities, foremost of them the World Bank President, Deputy of the former American Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz

Some parties did not comply said Alsosowa

Some parties did not comply said  Amat Al-Aleem Alsosowa

Amat Al-Aleem Alsosowa

By: Akram Al-Gaolahi:

Unfortunately, that some parties did not comply with it. In contrast there were some parties committed and that is now encouraging says Amat Al-Aleem Alsosowa/ Member of the National Dialogue Conference, in an exclusive interview with the Yemen Observer
Akram Al-Gaolahi: Where is the dialogue heading?
Amat Al-Aleem: I think at the end of the plenary sessions and the declaration of the 9 teams that will be intensely debating on nine different themes, I imagine that the conference stands on a central point, which is an important point. And it is too early to talk about the harmony that prevails in these sessions. As you know the topics are barbed, narrow and too hot to handle, and even these broad participations, on one hand, will enrich the discussions. On the other hand, these participations may be a factor, fueling some of the issues.  In any case, I think that on the eighth day of the conference, it will follow the planned path.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: What are your expectations for the success of the work of these committees?
Amat Al-Aleem: It’s too early to talk about such work of these committees, because they will require additional time. In addition to sitting in closed rooms and lucidity. After that, they will all head towards reality… towards the masses.. and to the specialists etc. to add their subjects. Of course, I imagine that at each period of downtime of the works, say after a month of work of these committees, we will return to the plenary sessions, which may be screened out, or we may add some things that must exist. We all hope that the dialogue will continue in its train. And every now and then we must get a defect in one of the wheels, and sometimes change of wheels, but I think that the leadership is moving and as long as the train is starting off, I hope it will reach its right station as good and safe.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: Does that mean you are optimistic about the success of the dialogue?
Amat Al-Aleem: I told you that there is no way, but to be optimistic.. I can’t imagine that any of us have the right to carry inside.. but hope, as the matter is more serious than it sounds. The success of this dialogue is a success for the entire homeland of Yemen.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: You are one of the Yemeni women pioneers. Do you have a vision to resolve the issues of women in Yemen through the national dialogue conference?
Amat Al-Aleem: First: As noted by the percentage distribution of women on the nine committees, they were distributed as they chose, an intelligent and important distribution. I have noticed that the main focus of their choice was on the core issues relating to state-building, good governance and then attention on other issues, such as the rights and freedoms and special issues. I think that there is no team that can work successfully if it did not invest the presence of women in these cases.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: Why is this belief?
Amat Al-Aleem: I see women’s issues as a combination of all these issues, not only in the narrow angle that will contradict the topics of women as if they were something strange, a space creature falling down to earth.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: Is the woman given the right in representation in this conference?
Amat Al-Aleem: In the initial shape of course, and as the political agreement stated and as the approval stated, that  the representation of women should at least be about 30%, but we found, unfortunately, that some parties did not comply with it. In contrast there were some parties committed and that is now encouraging.
God willing, the gap that was caused to the body of presidency, which was not represented at all with any woman, will now be covered. And I hope that she will compensate in chairing other committees, and I expect that this is what we shall see.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: The South issue, one of the most important issues in the national dialogue, do women in this dialogue conference have any vision to resolve this issue?
Amat Al-Aleem: It’s hard to mention women’s opinion, generally, in the Southern issue.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: Why?
Amat Al-Aleem: Because women also like men. They have different political affiliations .. Have private convictions as men do. But I think we can say, safely, that women will be divided to the committees, and they will disagree or agree in their opinions with men and women, in such core issues, not only on the Southern issue, but in the overall issues.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: A Word directed to your colleagues, members of the Dialogue Conference?
Amat Al-Aleem: There is no doubt that this extraordinary experience which, though not new to the Yemeni communities and also precedent, but it is a very rare opportunity to meet. Perhaps one of the most important observations that you can tell, and you’re proud of, that a lot of political ice which has touched various forms of our lives wherever we were, is now melted. Because the events of the past two years, hit in the liver many of the key issues that really needs more wisdom and more acceptance of others and respect. Even in disagreement with anyone, we should always put ourselves in his place. I find this fact exists in many, at least in political events within the dialogue conference. I wish that my brothers and sisters in the dialogue conference will make Yemen and the national dialogue conference above everything else.
Akram Al-Gaolahi: On behalf of myself and the Yemen Observer newspaper, I thank very much Mrs. / Amat Al-Aleem Alsoswa/ member of dialogue conference for this opportunity and we wish you luck and success.
Amat Al-Aleem: I thank you also.

Yemen :Military camp handed over

Ahmed Ali Saleh

Yemen :Military camp handed over

By Akram Al-Gaolahi
The  Minister of Defense, General Mohammed Nasser Ahmed announced on Saturday the completion of the delivery and receipt process of camp 48 in Sana’a
The Minister announced this in an expanded meeting for Supreme Commander Advisors, heads of Departments, Regional Commanders and in presence of the Head of General Staff, Maj.Gen Ahmed Ali al-Ashwal and the General Inspector, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ali al-Qasmi. The 48 camp used to be the headquarter of the Republican Guard units.
According to the delivery process, the Defense Ministry delivered the 48 camp (formerly the Republican Guard) to the Reserve Forces.
The Defense Minister announced that military uniform of the armed forces will be unified starting from next May within context of completion of modernization and development of the armed forces in accordance with the new organizational restructure, adding that all who are in the institutions and regions have to work according to the new organizational structure, within their delegated authority in management and leadership of the units falling under their command and responsibility.
Furthermore, the General Inspector of the Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. al-Qasmi said the restructure is continuing and focus will be on the military regions through sending work teams to complete the tasks that are entrusted to them, noting that the delivery and receipt process will be carried out in an accurate way, as it is establishing a new stage in the armed forces history, for maintaining the properties and equipments of the armed forces.
It is notable that the delivery and receipt process at the Republican Guard headquarter was completed in absence of its former commander, Brigadier Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh. It was carried out between the Assistant Deputy Defense Minister for Technological Affairs and the former  General Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Abu Bakr al-Ghazali and Gen. Ali al-Jaifi, Commander of the Reserve forces.