Armies of Liberation

Naba News has the most insulting and bizarre photo-shops of all time, but not for Yahya who is very close to the Iraqis. (Naba News has an Iraqi editor.) Yahya was the one who set up the two mourning tents for the homicidal Saddam and hosted the fugitive head of the Iraqi Scholar Assoc at Sana’a U where he explicitly praised the deaths of US troops. (al Dhouri’s daughter works in the language dep’t at the same university.) As it was in Sa’ada (and Iraq), the Iraqi Baath Party insulated inside the Yemeni military may be a factor in coming events as an interest group with its own agenda.

Yahya is also head of 1) the tourism business association, 2) the quite powerful MAZ Corp, 3) Kannan which sends funds to the Palestinians and 4) the Central Security Forces. A lot of what is going on is Yahya positioning himself for sucession. (I think Prince Ahmed is waiting for Ali Mohsen and Yahya to duke it out before he makes a showing.) Sa’ada was Ali Mohsen’s turf until the Germans’s kidnapping when Central Security entered the scene. The MAZ Corp. and Central Scurity Forces stealing land in Aden and the South is a fundamental stressor on unity. Yahya divorced Saleh’s daughter a bit ago but is also his nephew. The following (google translated) interview is quite fascinating but you can see the bloodline and the talent for spin.

Naba News: Shen Brigadier Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh – Chief of Staff of the Central Security – The Boldest and attack the fiercest of its kind, which is led by the official authority on the strongholds of corruption in the country of Yemen, attacking the government’s inability, and anti-corruption body to provide any of the symbols of corruption to justice, and the accused, official sources the work of smuggling, and criticized the decision makers complained of corruption at a time in his hand, which are responsible for the confrontation, at the same time attacked the House of Representatives to stand against the law of the land and not out of the light for fear that its members will go on the damage, and urged the authority to suspend the granting of the territory of the State officials, and the sacrifice of some civilian and military officials “who are causing chronic headache to the nation”, surprising that the arms dealer turned peace activist, a war of Saada. (Read on …)

(This is one of those out of sequence posts I referred to earlier.) The MAZ Corp is huge and is headed by Yahya Saleh, contrary to the law. But many large companies are headed by military personnel, and this fact is one of the fundamental distortions of the Yemeni economy. Yahya Saleh was also recently “elected” to head the Tourism Board. (Read on …)

Of all the corrupt ministries, the Health Ministry is the most disgusting because it has such an immediate negative impact on the lives of all Yemenis. Thousands and thousands die because of the subversion of this arm of the state into a criminal enterprsie that preys on the public.

In comment on the article “Yemen on the Brink of War” pls know the following: the Yemeni Health Minister’s wife is the sister of the husband of the the President’s sister-in law.

This is from Munier’s article below (google translated) and this is an actual oversight committee, Faris al Sanabani and all… I checked to make sure he wasn’t being sarcastic and no, the president’s son and nephews are actually the officials entrusted with foreign investment oversight.

The advice given by the son of former President is still in my list, and are justified because the President’s son, headed a commission unconstitutional oversees all investments of the country, is the most prominent members of this Committee the following brothers:

Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh
Tariq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh
Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh
Yahya Abdullah Saleh Doid
Khalid Al-Akwaa
Fares Alsenbani
Salah Al-Attar
Hafez Maiad
Jalal Yacoub

A case of the fox guarding the hen house.

Further damage control on the son of the Yemeni president being a thief according to US federal courts: here here and here

al Motamar

US State Department reports are political targeting: Human Rights Minister
Tuesday, 14-April-2009
Almotamar.net – Yemen Human Rights Minister Dr Huda al-Ban has on Tuesday revealed a government tendency for engaging civil society organisations working in human rights field in the reply to international reports issued by the US State Department, Amnesty International, Freedom House and others, so that the reply would be a national one instead of official. She has accused report by the US State Department of inaccuracy, reshuffling cards and fabrication of non-existing realities. She added that 95% of the issues and incidents the report has tackled had been literally mentioned in previous years. (Read on …)

Raufa ran for the head of the YJS and faced a lot of pressure from many quarters, including the VP of Yemen and Yahya Saleh.

Yemen Post

FK: Were you subject to pressures from higher ranking officials to force you to withdraw your candidacy?
RH: I was actually asked to withdraw from the elections and this was published in newspapers. In the beginning, Nasr Taha Mustafa, the former YJS chairman, was delegated by the General People Congress (GPC) to convince me to withdraw. This clearly means this party will not wait until the results come out to see who wins, but rather it works on making other candidates withdraw their candidacy to facilitate the task of its candidate, something that contradicts the core of democracy. I apologized to Mustafa and told him over phone, because I was then abroad, that I will never withdraw.

FK: Have your received similar calls or have you been subject to other sorts of pressure?
RH: Yes, I got a telephone call from Yahya Al-Shauibi, but he did not mention withdrawing the candidacy and offered to meet when I return; however, I avoided him because I knew the message he had wished to convey. I received another call from Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh who later came to my house and told me that GPC Secretary General and Vice-President Abdu Rabu Mansour had requested him to convince me to withdraw.

Update: Now thats funny right there. The Telecommunication Ministry says that what the article actually means is that the fine (which is payable to the US government) is what was paid to the ministry’s officials in exchange for the favorable rates. Nothing to see, just move along…

Yemen Post: Informed sources from the Ministry of Telecommunications told news web site that such report by media outlets is groundless. “Latinode agreed to pay a $2 million fine during a three-year period to officials in Yemen in exchange for favorable interconnection rates,” the source said, calling on all media outlets to be accurate and objective when reporting news.

Al-Tagheer says a government official said in a phone interview that the information was “incorrect” and “false” and designed to harm the reputation of Yemen, and some symbols in the forefront of the son of the president.

Mareb Press: مصدر مسئول في الاتصالات ينفي تورط شخصيات رفيعة في عملية رشوة لشركة أمريكية An official source in communication denies involvement in the process of eminent persons to bribe a U.S. company
الخميس 09 إبريل-نيسان 2009 الساعة 02 صباحاً / مأرب برس – خاص Thursday, April 09 – April 2009 at 02 am / Marib Press – private

نفي مصدر مسئول في وزارة الاتصالات اليمنية ما ذكره موقع التغيير نت Denied official source at the Yemeni Ministry of Communications with the site change Net من تورط مسئول كبير في الوزارة ونجل الرئيس علي عبد الله صالح في عملية رشوة قيل انها قدمت من قبل شركة ” لاتين نود ” الأميركية والمتخصصة The involvement of a senior official in the Ministry and the son of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the process it was a bribe offered by the company, “We wish to Latin American” and specialized في خدمات الاتصالات. Communications services.

وقال المصدر المسئول لـ” مأرب برس ” ان ما ورد عبارة عن تلفيقات من قبل جهات لها دوافعها الخاص ولا اساس له من الصحة، مؤكد ان الوزارة ستكلف عدد من القانونيين للرد على تلك الاتهامات الزائفة ومقاضاة من ويقف وراء تلك الإخبار الكيدية. The official source of the “Marib Press that” as a fabrication by the private actors motivated and unfounded, confirmed that the ministry will be a number of lawyers to respond to the accusations false and the prosecution of the stands behind the news that malicious.

Miami Internet phone firm pleads guilty to paying bribes
BY PATRICK DANNER
pdanner@MiamiHerald.com
A Miami-based Internet phone company has agreed to pay a $2 million fine after pleading guilty to paying bribes to officials in Honduras and Yemen in exchange for favorable interconnection rates.

Latin Node paid more than $2.2 million in bribes that company e-mails indicate were intended for, among others, the son of the Yemeni president and officials of the Yemeni Ministry of Telecommunications, court documents show. (Read on …)

The multi-million deal to upgrade the Migs with the Ukranian Defense Ministry was only a few months ago. (Smart bombs in the hands of the Yemeni military…) Russia is Yemen’s largest creditor by far. (The Saudi debt is only around 400K.) But dire national interest takes second place to new toys. Are they for Saada or the South or the black market?

In June 2008, the US and Yemen signed their first end use monitoring agreement on mil hardware which will allow for the verification of articles and services provided to Yemen under U.S.-sponsored military and security assistance, thus preventing the misuse or illicit transfer of these items and services. We hope. Its not nice when your counter-terror assistance is used to target a civilian population or is sold onto the black market. Russia, China and North Korea have no such restrictions.

Natural Gas came up as a topic. The YLNG presold 9 TCF but there’s thought to be upto 16 TCF. Saleh tried to wrangle a debt write off, but no. And the unending shopping spree will continue as the head of the Air Force, Field Marshal Saleh’s half brother, Mohammed Saleh al-Ahmar, is heading to Oman this month for an industry conference.

Washington, DC – Following the visit of Yemeni resident ‘Ali ‘Abdallah ‘Salih to Russia last week, the two countries have signed a deal worth an estimated $1 billion that would see some very sophisticated Russian weaponry exported to Yemen, the official Yemen news agency SABA reported.

Among the weaponry are a number of MiG-29 fighter jets, attack and transport helicopters, T-80 and T72 tanks and armored vehicles, in addition to modern telecommunications equipment, the news agency reported.

In exchange, the Russian government-owned gas giant Gazprom announced that it intended to invest in gas and oil projects in Yemen.

Among the plans is the construction of a plant that would be able to handle 6.7 million tons of gas yearly. It is estimated that Yemen has a 16,951-billion cubic feet gas reserve. (Read on …)

Yemen Online is “associated with” al Iryani as we know, so here he is as McBeth, really:

The True Picture of GPC and JMP negotiations and the role Dr. Al-Iryani played. YemenOnline exclusive. – Negotiations between the General People’s Congress GPC and the Joint meeting Parties JMP has been conducted for quite sometime while the political street awaited a solution.

YemenOnline exclusively reports what was going on behind the scenes regarding Yemen democratic experience.

The picture:

1) During the meeting of the General Committee of the General People’s Congress, Dr. Al-Iryani shows his objection, saying” Democracy is not Solo, and the International Community will not acknowledge elections carried out without the participation of the opposition parties.” (Read on …)

YDN Brigadier General Mohamed Saleh Al-Hamar, Commander of the Yemeni Air Force (YAF), has confirmed that he will travel with a delegation of fellow officers to Defence IQ’s Air Power Middle East 2009 conference, to be held in Muscat, Oman. Notification was received today via the British Embassy based in Sanaa, Yemen.

Further details of the delegation that will accompany the Yemeni Air Force Commander are expected in the coming weeks.

In the first quarter of 2007, the Yemeni Air Force signed a formal contract with MiG covering the supply of 32 MiG-29SMT aircraft at a cost of around USD1.3 billion. The successful tender by MiG for the modernisation of 66 aircraft that had previously been supplied was announced at a similar time…Defence IQ is a leading independent organiser of defence industry conferences, training and workshops and a proud member of the defence industry.

1- This is a bad guy.
2- Modernization means smart bomb capacity.
3- 1.3 bil on weapons means more starving kids.
4- Mohammed Saleh Al-Ahmar is the half brother of Saleh and he owns al-Hashdi Petroluem Company

26 Sept

Defence Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed concluded a successful several-day visit to Russia.
During his visit to Moscow, the Defence Minister held talks with a number of Russian officials on the aspects of cooperation relations between the two countries, particularly in fields of military and Combating and preventing terrorism.
Ahmed also met at Yemen’s embassy in Moscow with Yemeni undergraduates studying in Russian military academies in which he delivered a speech focusing on a number of the national issues and the latest developments witnessed in the homeland, especially the rebellion movement in some districts of Saada governorate.
He confirmed that his country’s government had dealt with the al-Houthi rebellion in accordance with the interests of the country.
For the concern situations in some southern provinces, Defence Minister Mohammed Ahmed considered them “an expression of less than 20 or 30 persons only”.

These figures of property damage in Sa’ada were first released in July 2007, so the totals are certainly much higher now after the fifth war. In the mean time, prominent activists including al-Khaiwani remain in jail. Another is Mohammed al-Miftah, who is on a hunger strike after being disappeared by the Interior Ministry.

Sahwa Net – The head of Al-Haq Party’s shoura council Mohammad Miftah has been going on a hunger strike since two months. Miftah who was kidnapped by gunmen belonging to the Interior Ministry on May 21, 2008, said he would not suspend the hunger strike until he is released…It is worth noting that the authorities suspect that Miftah belongs to the al-Houthi movement in Saada.

This is the same Miftah who Amnesty International called a prisoner of conscience. A Zaidi cleric Mohamed Miftah was released in May 2006 apparently after receiving presidential pardons. He had been serving an eight-year prison term.

And Ali Mohsen surfaces…

Mareb Press: The governmental committee assigned to evaluate and count the damages caused by the rebellion in Sa’ada province returned today to the Sa’ada, chaired by the Minister of Local Administration, Abdul Qadeer Hilal, and the Deputy of Prime Minister for Security and Stability affairs, Rashad al-Alimi, Minister of Defense, Mohammed Ahmed, and commander of the Eastern North region, Ali Muhsen al-Ahmer.

The committee will visit military and security units in the province to inspect the condition of soldiers.
Meanwhile, the cabinet studied yesterday the initial report on counting the damages caused by the armed rebellion in Sa’ada province, prepared by the committee chaired by Abdul Qader Hilal, Minister of Local Administration.

The cabinet directed the committee to carry out field visits to Bani Hushiesh district in Sana’a province to evaluate and count damages caused by the rebellion and including its findings in the report to be raised to the government.

A total of 4141 houses, and 88 farms were damaged in Northern Province of Sa’ada during the war between the Al Houthi rebels and the government troops, said a primary official report on Tuesday. The report which was carried by the state-run news agency Saba said some 201 public installations including 116 schools, 36 health utilities, and 26 mosques were also either wholly of partially damaged.

Source: IRIN

A recently formed government committee has faced problems assessing damage to buildings and property in conflict-hit Saada Governorate, northern Yemen.

Committee members had to return to the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after being intercepted in Mashor village Saada Governorate, by pro-government tribes who said they, not the al-Houthi rebels, should have priority when it came to government assistance. The pro-government tribes did not want the committee to start assessing the damage in “pro-al-Houthi villages”, demanding instead that the government give them priority assistance as a reward for fighting on the government side.

However, a few days later, on 6 August, the committee went back to another part of Saada Governorate on the orders of the Cabinet, to try and complete its assessment.

Minister of Local Administration Abdul-Qader Hilal, who chairs the committee, said: “We will work in accordance with the president’s orders and the state’s strategy to promote peace and reconstruct Saada.”

An interim report by the committee, which was set up on 22 July, said 4,141 houses and 88 farms (including 24 poultry farms) had been damaged in the past two months alone, due to the fighting. It also said 201 public buildings were damaged, including 116 schools, 36 health centres and 26 mosques in the same period.It is unclear to what extent a ceasefire in mid-July – following a deal between President Ali Abdullah Saleh and representatives of the rebel leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi – was holding. Local media have reported continuing sporadic clashes between the two sides.

Meanwhile, local media reports indicate that some army leaders were reportedly not happy when Saleh tried to end the fighting before they could defeat the rebels.

Rebel allegations

A statement by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s information office on 3 August said some army leaders were trying to violate the ceasefire deal: unidentified army officers had set up four military checkpoints on the main road to Har Sufian, a pro-al-Houthi area in Amran Governorate. It said there were other violations, which had resulted in the killing of a number of citizens.

In November 2007, a government committee said 3,375 properties had been damaged in five of Saada’s 15 districts, but the assessment was cut short by the fighting.

Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands displaced during the clashes in Saada Governorate since 2004. According to the 2004 population census, Saada Governorate has 81,568 houses and a population of some 700,000.

NY Times:

PRESIDENT Ali Abdullah Saleh’s face is everywhere in Yemen. He stares out from billboards, shop windows and living room walls, always with the same proud expression: eyes glinting, chest thrust out as if to confront a challenger. After 30 years in power, Mr. Saleh has become almost synonymous with the state in this arid, desperately poor corner of southern Arabia.

But lately the president, 66, known for his wicked sense of humor, has been uncharacteristically dour. A war with northern Shiite rebels has spread to the outskirts of the capital. Terrorist attacks have led embassies and foreign companies to evacuate their employees. With an insurrection rising in the south as well, the turmoil has renewed fears that this conservative Muslim country of 23 million, a longtime haven for jihadists, could collapse into another Afghanistan. (Read on …)

The jihadization of Yemen. If I call it the Talibanization of Yemen, will more people recognize the trend? (Interesting, but not unsurprising, the Minister of Tourism is in there…) Danged good Yemen Times oped:

Gracious are the Yemeni people. They will soon have guards to promote virtue and curb vice. A group of clerics led by Sheikh Abdulmajid Al-Zindani, rector of the Islamic Al-Iman University, recently spoke to President Ali Abdullah Saleh about setting up a national committee for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. This information was announced recently by Hamud Hashim Al-Tharhi, a leading figure in the Islah party.

Al-Zindani and his fellows alleged that vice and debauchery has dominated the country. According to Al-Tharhi, the committee will involve the Ministers of Culture, Tourism and Information among others.

It has the same orientation as the anti-vice organization operating in Saudi Arabia for decades. While the Saudis are now trying to curb the activities of this organization as a part of their fight against terrorism and religious fanaticism, Yemen is just starting to allow it.

This is the latest invention of Al-Zindani following his allegations of his successful invention of a cure for HIV/AIDS. This man who has been once a cleric in the presidential council representing the Islah party in the then-coalition government is mad for publicity and seeing himself on camera. Following his ousting from the position as head of the Islah party’s Shura Council, he has been frantically trying to keep himself on camera in his effort to remain a public figure. He has been leading protests against the Israeli attacks on Palestinians and protests against the Danish cartoons. (Read on …)

Letter to the Editor

Dear Jane,
Please ask Senator Trent Franks to issue an addendum:

Dear Ambassador:
(ed: Abdulwahab A. Al-Hajjri, the Yemeni ambassador to the US, is an in-law of President Saleh, as is the Yemeni ambassador to the UN. Saleh has many in-laws because he has four wives. )

When your father al-Qadi al-Hajri (the Deputy President) in 1973 ordered the crucifixion of 3 saboteurs in Sanaa and was as a consequence assassinated by Carlos (who lived in Aden) in 1976 near the Lancaster Gate Hotel in London, have you felt then or now that was fair play?

As you are an in-law of the President, you are under pressure but you are second generation political judge or judicial politician, so search your conscience the way you did when your father was shot dead.

Remember that your father was accused of selling (provisionally) Asir to Saudi Arabia in 1973 when the then President (Qadi Iryani) ran away to Damascus because he was too afraid to sign or say no to Saudi Arabia.

Khaiwani is refusing to sell his conscience no more than over points of view. Surely you can empathize. When you pray for the soul of your father as a man who made a stand (which was highly controversial), remember to add a prayer for Khaiwani.

(ed: Yemen has a very interesting history. Saleh himself has an interesting history. Asir is on the Yemeni/Saudi border. )

News Yemen

Yemen Journalist Anti-Corruption, NGO, has released its first report on corruption for 2007. The report has disclosed cases of corruption in many state institutions.
The report, prepared in cooperation with Yemeni Women Journalist Without Chains, the cabinet, Ministry of Defense and Presidential Office came first in a long list of institutions that practiced corruption in 2007costing the country over YR 452 billion, according to the report. Most of the amount was granted for projects which the government has not planned and studied well, said the report.

The report said the government has not benefited from assistances estimated at YR 7.7 billion due to misconduct. It said the government has been contradictory with transparency policy and has not offered explanation about what it called “undistributed costs” estimated at YR66.5 billion.

Meanwhile, the official website 26sep.net has condemned the report of “the so-called Yemen Journalists Anti-Corruption organization” on corruption cases in different ministries and other institutions”. It said the report was based on individual assessment and inadequate analysis.

The report contained moral and scientific blight as accusations against national institutions, like the Defense Ministry, of corruption have been derived from individual evaluation, said the report.

On the other hand, the Supreme National Anti-Corruption Committee (SNACC), president Saleh formed last year to fight corruption, has denied press reports that the commander of Republican Guards Yahya Mohammad Abdullah Saleh has presented a financial disclosure to SNACC .

Yemen Post:

President Saleh has handed the responsibility of solving the Saa’da crisis to Sheikh Hussein Al-Ahmar, Head of the National Solidarity Council. Saleh has asked Ahmar to finalize the differences between both sides and ensure that peace fills the region of Sa’ada. This comes after the previous two committees responsible for the peace negotiations between the government and Houthi loyalists have failed over the past year, as casualties continue to rise weekly.

Houthi field officer Abdul Malik Al-Houthi welcomed the move by President Saleh and hoped that the outcomes are fruitful now that Ahmar is head of the committee.

Most members of the new committee assigned by Saleh are members of the National Solidarity Council. This is considered the third mission President Saleh has asked Sheikh Ahmar to intervene and help solve over the last two months including the Ja’ashin and South issues that Ahmar has solved.

Turning back to Sa’ada, escalation from all angles took place as fifty people were killed and nearly one hundred and twenty injured as locals in Sa’ada witnessed the start of a sixth war in the war torn governorate.

A local source told the Yemen Post that violent clashes are ongoing in different areas of Sa’ada province where casualties for Sunday exceeds 15 deaths and over 45 injured.

The source added that Houthis have become stronger especially when their fellow rebels were released from government prisons. Meanwhile, Houthi followers are surrounding a government complex in Munabeh district.

Further, government forces are also surrounding a large group of Houthi loyalist in Saa’da according to sources.

On Saturday, three Yemeni security soldiers were killed and another two injured in an attack that targeted a control center located in the northwest part of the city. In separate clashes, eight Houthi loyalists were killed in continuous clashes in the city as the death toll increases everyday from both sides.

Also, 15 people were killed and over 60 others injured, mostly soldiers when a powerful explosion rocked Suliman mosque in Sa’ada.

The explosion resulted from explosives packed into a motorbike and it was detonated when worshippers started to leave the mosque following performing Friday prayer.

The war has also caused unrest in people lives as more than 50 thousand people are homeless according to local sources. Also epidemic and infectious diseases are spread and many schools are closed. The Human Rights Report for 2007 issued by

Wow thats huge. Al-Alimi cut loose as interior minister and re-assigned to overseeing defense and interior. Is it a promotion?

President Saleh authorizes his new deputy premier to run interior and defense ministries
Sana’a, May 21, 2008
(YemenOnline) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh authorized today the newly appointed deputy prime minister to be in charge of the affairs of the interior and defense ministries.

Presiding over a meeting for the newly appointed cabinet and newly elected governors President Saleh said that the new deputy premier for security and defense affairs will be the head of the Security Committee located in the premises of the National Security Service in order to follow up on security issues in the country.

President Saleh’s authorization makes al-Alimi responsible for supervising, monitoring, and evaluating the performance of the interior and defense ministries. (Read on …)

Anti-Corruption Parliamentarians May Face Charges For Uncovering Corruption

And what do these percentages mean? How much of the ministry’s budget is lost to corruption?

Yemen Online

YEMEN: Oil, military and security “most corrupted” areas – says report
Sana’a, April 29, 2008 (Yemenonline.info) – Yemen’s Parliamentarians Against Corruption (YEMEN PAC) recently issued a report demonstrating that corruption is widespread in the areas of oil, military and security.

According to the report corruption is spread the most in the fields of oil, military and security.

“Corruption spreads in the oil, military and security areas by 87.2%, 61.8% and 60.9% respectively,” said the report.

A government source firmly denied the content of the report on the multitude of corruption in government sectors.

According to the report, corruption spreads in the areas of health, diplomacy, fisheries and agriculture by 53.6%, 48.1%, 35.4% and 33.6% respectively.

Doha-based Al-Jazeera kept broadcasting excerpts from the report during all its business news briefs on Monday.

The source asserted the government’s right to prosecute those who prepared the report for harming and libeling the country by allegedly providing false information about its institutions.

“The government may also demand lifting diplomatic immunity of those parliamentarians,” the source concluded.

News Yemen

Good for the bio section
(Read on …)

A GONGO its called, not an NGO but a Goverment Operated Non-Governmental Organization. He’s talking about the proposed quota for women. It would be good if he got Uncle Ali to appoint any women to governmental positions or in the GPC. Currently there’s two ministers. The GPC in the last election nominated women for 1% of candidates and physically harassed the independent women candidates.

al-Motamar

Chairman of the Progress & Advancement Forum (PAF) in Yemen Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh said Sunday the initiative of President Ali Abdullah Saleh regarding empowering the women to practice their political rights through allocation of a quota amounting to 15% at the parliament is an important step. He added in case of its success and achievement it will open more spacious horizons for the society in general and the Yemeni women in particular. It will enable them exercise their tights effectively away from slogans that made this question mere decors in their political and electoral programmes.

In a symposium the PAF held Sunday in participation with other organisations with the aim of supporting the women in the upcoming elections, he affirmed the importance of drawing a dividing line between empty words and truthfulness and to associate words with action with regard to empowering the women to practice their political and social rights. (Read on …)