The Local Press in Yemen
The Yemen Times has a section where they translate what in the local papers. Its always enlightening.
al-Sahwa, paper of the opposition party Islah
- International reports: Rima elections were not free and decent (precurser for the presidential elections)
- The government decision concerning Head of Judiciary Council, deception for the international community
(I was afraid of that. Its very good idea to dislodge Saleh as head of the judiciary, but so many announcements sound good but are propaganda for the international community. There was that big round of talk about closing some of the embassys overseas which are money pits for the well connected. So far its Romania.)
- Deputy American ambassador: Arab regimes are slow in implementing their laws and talk much
(This must be Khoury. He talks straight. Krajeski whos a very good diplomat has that whole diplospeak thing down very well.)
- More than ninety teachers demonstrate in protest to abolishing their jobs
Electorial Commission: (1/3 tot gpc, 1/3 to jmp) The remainder third of representation could be given to people in judiciary, university students, unemployed graduates or any social segment to be agreed on. (Currently the remaining third goes to the election commisssion itself which is a gpc prop.)
al=Migthaq, affiliated with the govt
The newspaper’s editorial says some of opposition parties continue their hostile campaign against the General People’s Congress just to discredit its status and achievements, using a type of language full of hatred and misleading and provocation….Those who try to hunt for small mistakes happening here and there as in any society and work to exaggerate them and use them in their hostile tendencies have become clearly known to the people and will not succeed in their pursuit. (The poor GPC the victim of that mean old opposition exaggerating its small mistakes here and there.)
al-Shumoo (must be some kind of govt affiliate because its talking about a foreign conspiracy.)
- The American ambassador to Yemen demanded giving the GSM third operator to an American company instead of a Chinese
- Imminent movements for the arrest of a number of personalities supporting the rebellion
- Conspiracy targeting unity of the Socialist Party, Observers emphasize its parties are local and regional political forces
- Suspicious clandestine contacts between local societies and foreign parties lead to boycott activities of some of them
- Through hundreds of jobs provided by its consulates around the world, Washington courts the youth of Sana’a and Riyadh
In its editorial the newspaper says the political variables on the ground, whether at the local or the regional and international levels, emphasize the necessity of the national alignment to encounter foreign interventions aiming at disruption of the political life on the Yemeni arena. Those interventions are planned according to an agenda that it is not to rule out its adoption of a strategy working for dismemberment of the country into sectarian entities. The features of this scheme could be observed through what it seems an insistence on prolongation of the duration of al-Houthi rebellion events in the country….
The loss of confidence between opposition parties and he ruling party represents one of the most important factors supporting continuation of al-Houthi rebellion activities, or any similar conspiratorial forces which try to implement their plots against Yemen as a homeland and people.
al-Thoury, paper of the oppositon Socialists party, see the contrast?
- Because of its partiality to the ruling party, JMP demands re-formation of the Election Supreme Commission
- JMP declares rejection of the Supreme Commission’s formation of election committees
- YSP secretary-General congratulates Chile president
- Woman sector of the YSP in Aden re-organized
Writer Mansour Al-Surouri tackles in is article the problem of waters in Yemen, saying it is one of the most irremediable ones for a long time….
According to estimates of the World Bank, there are 45 thousand artesian wells exposed to danger due to absence of modern management and because of following backward methods, especially in irrigation as well as non-existence of programs for rationing water consumption. Thus large quantity of underground waters is threatened of loss. The policy ignoring by the government of such a dangerous problem and its tragic dimensions is no longer convincing for the citizens or of avail for a ruling regime the first responsible for that and others. The ruling regime has therefore to get ready to bear its responsibility for the future because the essence for life continuation is water.
