In one day : Brigadier in capital, director in central Yemen assassinated

In one day : Brigadier in capital, director in central Yemen assassinated

In one day : Brigadier in capital, director in central Yemen assassinated

By Akram al-gaolahi
A senior officer in the armed forces survived an assassination attempt when a bomb planted in his car exploded as he was driving on Baghdad Street in downtown of the capital Sana’a.” a security source told Yemen Observer.
Brigadier Abdullah al-Mihdhar in Yemen’s armed forces, who worked as a lecturer at the Military Academy, in the capital, and his 13-year-old son were seriously injured him, according to the source. The Brigadier later on was reported dead as he was hospitalized in the intensive care unit at the Military Hospital in Sana'a.
The source also pointed out that a forensic team rushed to the scene and cordoned the place off and police have immediately started investigation into the incident.

In Rada’a city of Bayda province, central Yemen, Director of Walad Rabea district, Sheikh Ali al-Ma’atti, was killed on Sunday in ambush that took place next to his house.

Local sources said unidentified gunmen opened fire on al-Ma’atti while leaving his house and fled the scene. Sheikh al-Ma’atti was transferred to the capital Sana’a for treatment as he was in critical conditions, according to the sources, but later on, Sheikh al-Ma’atti was also reported dead of serious wounds.

Rada’a city has been witnessing a state of security chaos in the past three years as well as a series of sabotage acts and armed clashes that claimed the lives of many citizens.
 

Six killed and wounded in protesters camp in Sana’a

Six killed and wounded in protesters camp in Sana’a

By Akram al-gaolahi
Two protesters were killed and four others wounded in an armed attack against Houthi protesters and independent youth in Sana’a University Square.
Activists in the square said that gunmen on motorbike opened fire at the protesters and fled the scene.
The attack took place in a time when Houthi, Salafi and Islahi leaders had met to defuse sectarian tension after confrontations in three mosques due to Taraweeh prayer.
Loyalists of Houthi group cordoned off the protesters and searched people who enter the protesters camp.
Meanwhile, activists in the camp accused Islah to be behind the attack.
On his part, protesters in the camp stated that the one who opened fire put on Special Security Forces uniform.
The dead people are Yahiya Ahmed al-Seraji, 29, and Abdul-Latif al-Matari, 25. The wounded are Mohammed Maraqshi, 35, from Hodeida, and Abdu Raqshi, 35. The two others are unidentified.

BREAKING NEWS: 8-kilo explosive device defused in Hael street of capital Sana'a

BREAKING NEWS:
8-kilo explosive device defused in Hael street of capital Sana'a

NDC sports tournament kicks off in Mövenpick

NDC sports tournament kicks off in Mövenpick
By Akram al-gaolahi
The Mövenpick hotel organizes the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) sports tournament at the hotel’s sports facilities on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. The tournament will include Basketball, Tennis, Squash, volleyball, football and billiards or chess.
This year’s tournament was named the NDC tournament after the NDC which is being held in the Mövenpick’s halls.
“Last year’s tournament included three sports only; Basketball, Tennis and Squash but this year we’ve broadened the list of sports of the tournament.” Said Mohammed H. Al-Nunu, Sales Manager at Mövenpick Hotel.
“In belief that the holy month of Ramadan is the month of health, the Ramadan Mövenpick tournament series was started last year and received much turnout from different segments of the society.” Added Al-Nunu. A number of companies, organizations and media outlets have expressed interest in sponsoring the event including the Yemen Observer.
 

President Hadi, no power will affect NDC

President Hadi, no power will affect NDC
By Akram al-gaolahi
President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi  said the political and security situation in Yemen is very difficult and complicated, stressing that he will not allow any force, group or class to affect the progress of the activities of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) whatever follies or dishonesty they commit against the people.
 “Our economic, security and political situation is very difficult and complicated, and we ensure everyone that, what we are in need of is the honest and good efforts and not the subversive actions of disrupting the electricity, the pipelines and the roads. We announce from here that no force, group or class can affect the progress of the NDC, whatever follies or immorality they commit against the people. All Yemeni people know the terrorist methods that are linked to the narrow interests of the influential who were used to prevaricate the law, order and people’s rights,” the President said during the breakfast banquet which he held for the NDC members.
The President ensured that the people want security, safety, stability and to go forward, because the wheel of history never turns back. “Time is going forward,” the President said pointing out that after all the fighting and disputes between the political forces, they are now under the same roof and sitting around the same dialogue table with all their difference which   melted  and changed into discussions and programs for a better future.
The President noted that the NDC should address the final, encouraging issues to ensure resolving the southern and Sada issues to come to an integrated document to be inserted into the new Yemeni constitution provisions, reiterating that everyone is looking forward to what they the NDC members are doing, ensuring that they are fit for such responsibility and the whole world is looking at them within this basis.
 “Yemen was lucky that all its forces resorted to peace and they possess a road map that took them from crisis to safety, with unprecedented regional and  international consensus,” the President said, adding, “the Security Council with all its members held their meeting in Sana’a amid an international processes to spare Yemen the civil war and take it to peace, noting that it is an exceptional international precedent  considered to be in favor of Yemen,” the President said, adding that, “we are in a better position, compared to Ramadan of last year. Many things at different levels have been accomplished, where measures and procedures have been taken, foremost of them the army restructure at the senior level of leadership, and work is underway to complete it as planned. We   overcame a lot of challenges and difficulties and launched the comprehensive national dialogue on the eighteenth of last March and have so far achieved many impressive successes, which are culminated in by the conclusion of the second phase and the beginning of the third stage.”
President Hadi said since the break out of September and October revolutions we are suffering successive crises and all the Yemeni people on the both sides in the country have paid the bill of the cold war, like the rest of the Arab world, due to the disputes between the two previous major international forces, ensuring that after the establishment of unity there was no program or strategy for development, progress or prosperity for the birth of a new era, and what happened in this period is known to  all in details.
A responsible source in the Supreme Security Committee formerly stated that the armed forces personnel were able to capture a commercial ship having two containers on board carrying commercial pistols at the time of its entry into the Yemeni territorial waters near Zuqar Island.
The Supreme Security Committee acknowledges the Yemeni-Turkish security cooperation which led to capture of the ship. Likewise, the Committee also warns those who try to disturb the general peace and security of the country by damaging the national economy. It asserts that the military and security machinery will continue to be on high alert to carry out their duties in order to ensure preservation of the peace, security and stability of the homeland as well as to provide conditions necessary for making the National Dialogue Conference successful , thus completing the process of the country’s political settlement.

Yemen Struggles to Absorb Returnees from Saudi Arabia

Yemen Struggles to Absorb Returnees from Saudi Arabia
By akram algaolahi
Yemen has asked IOM to provide assistance to some 200,000 Yemeni migrant workers forced to leave Saudi Arabia since April as part of a crackdown on undocumented migrants in the Kingdom.
More irregular Yemeni migrants could return from Saudi Arabia in the coming months, following the extension through November of a Saudi amnesty for undocumented migrants previously scheduled to expire this week, according to IOM Yemen.
The Yemeni government has now asked IOM Yemen to support vulnerable returnees, some of whom are thought to have been in Saudi Arabia for two or three generations, by providing basic assistance in terms of shelter, access to water (through well rehabilitation and water trucking), non food relief items and hygiene kits.
They have also asked for IOM medical and other facilities in the border town of Haradh to be made available to vulnerable Yemenis returning overland. Currently the facilities are used mainly to help stranded migrants from the Horn of Africa.
In recent weeks many returning Yemenis have been seen on roads near Haradh trying to hitch rides on passing trucks to get back to their villages.
The returnees add to a growing pool of often destitute migrants who make the dangerous and expensive trip across the Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa to Yemen in the hope of finding jobs in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries.
The number from the Horn of Africa arriving in Yemen reportedly increased from 34,000 in 2010, to over 75,000 in 2011 and 84,000 in 2012. Over 35,000 have arrived in the first five months of 2013.
Since the fencing of the border with Saudi Arabia, the Saudi crackdown on undocumented migrants and raids on people smugglers’ camps carried out by the Yemeni Ministry of Defense, many more migrants have become stranded in Haradh, where an estimated 25,000 irregular destitute migrants are now living in often terrible conditions, without adequate shelter and access to food, water and medical assistance.
IOM, which runs a Migrant Response Center (MRC) including a clinic in Haradh, has already assisted almost 19,000 Ethiopian migrants to voluntarily return home since 2007. Since April, IOM has assisted another 765 Ethiopians, a third of them unaccompanied minors, to fly home.
But while the number of stranded migrants continues to increase, funding for the programme has shrunk. At the beginning of 2013, IOM was forced to scale back its distribution of free meals, provide less shelter and make fewer medical referrals.
UN funding and in-kind donations from WFP and UNICEF enabled the resumption of flights in June and some humanitarian services provided by the MRC. But IOM Yemen still needs USD 3 million to meet the Yemeni government’s appeal to provide ongoing shelter, food, basic health care and protection for migrants and returnees, as well as voluntary return flights for stranded Ethiopian migrants.

Libya ready for Yemeni labor

Libya ready for Yemeni labor
By akram algaolahi
The Yemeni Expatriate Affairs Minister, Mojahed al-Qohali, discussed with the Libyan Ambassador Ramadan Benzema the bilateral relations between Yemen and Libya and the ways to develop them especially in areas of Yemeni   labor organization and dispatch. According to the Yemeni News Agency Saba, the meeting addressed the organization and dispatch of the Yemeni labor to Libya on scheduled basis that would ensure the sending of safe and qualified labor while guaranteeing their rights.
The two sides came to an understanding and drafted a memo and agreement between Yemen and Libya in the fields of immigration organization. They also held a discussion in regards to investment opportunities in Yemen. The Libyan Ambassador, Ramadan Benzema, ensured that the Yemeni worker in Libya would be held in high esteem and expressed his country’s interest in overcoming the difficulties in dispatching Yemeni labor to Libya.