ADEN, May 16, 2013 (AFP) Kidnappers in Yemen have freed three International Committee of the Red Cross employees, including a Swiss and a Kenyan, along with two Egyptian hostages, following tribal mediation, sources said Thursday. "We have managed to obtain the release of the five hostages kidnapped by the Al-Marakisha tribe," who released them late Wednesday, said Abdellatif Sayed, a local commander with ...

ADEN, May 16, 2013 (AFP) Kidnappers in Yemen have freed three International Red Cross employees, including a Swiss and a Kenyan, along with two Egyptian hostages, following tribal mediation, a local official said Thursday. "We have managed to obtain the release of the five hostages kidnapped by the Al-Marakisha tribe," who released them overnight Wednesday, said Abdellatif Sayed, a local commander with the ...

ADEN, May 07, 2013 (AFP) Armed tribesmen have kidnapped two Egyptian technicians working at a cement factory in southern Yemen, a local official said on Tuesday. "The two men were intercepted as they left the cement plant in Abyan on Monday night and were taken off to a mountainous region," the official told AFP, asking not to be named. He said the kidnappers belonged to the Marakisha tribe and were demandi ...

March 4, 2013 (AFP) A suicide car bomb driven by a suspected Al-Qaeda militant on Monday rammed into a building in south Yemen used by pro-government militiamen killing 12 of them, a member of the group and medics said. “A suicide car bomber from Al-Qaeda managed to reach the office of the Popular Resistance Committees in Loder, and detonated the explosives at the gate,” said a member of the militia that fo ...

October 28, 2012 (AFP) Suspected US drone strikes killed three Al-Qaeda militants on Sunday in the northern Yemeni province of Saada in the first such raid against the militant network there, tribal sources told AFP. "Three Al-Qaeda suspects were killed in three separate drone strikes in Saada," a tribal source said, adding the raids targeted Wadi al-Abu Jabara, an Al-Qaeda bastion some 250 kilometres (155 ...

CAIRO, Sept 14, 2012 (AFP) Four more people died as anti-American protests sparked by a privately-produced film mocking Islam spread across the Middle East and North Africa on Thursday, targeting US embassies. The fatalities occurred in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as police fired live rounds and tear gas to try to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of protesters trying to storm the US mission. The US embassy ...

By Eman El-Shenawi June 14, 2012 “He’s like a ghost,” a Yemeni waiter quietly tells a visiting political expert during a chance chat about his country’s former leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh. “You don’t see him, but you can certainly feel his presence,” the waiter said, in an answer to a question that has left many minds blank. Where is Saleh now? He was the man who publicly flaunted his injuries during the civ ...

Dubai, June 3, 2012 (AFP) The UAE on Sunday announced food aid worth 500 million dirhams ($136 million) for Yemen where aid groups say around 44 percent of the population do not have enough to eat, state news agency WAM reported. President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahayan “has approved allocating 500 million dirhams to buy food and distribute it urgently to the brotherly Yemeni people,” WAM said. The mov ...

April 7, 2012 (Reuters) Yemen’s president removed a half brother of former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday as head of the air force, but left Saleh’s son, nephew and other allies in place as heads of important military units. Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi, who had served as Saleh’s deputy, took power in February after standing as the only candidate in a presidential election, part of a deal negotiated by Yemen’ ...

March 18, 2012 Missiles fired from the sea slammed into al-Qaeda positions in the southern Yemeni city of Zinjibar on Sunday killing at least 16 suspected militants, a local official said. He said the heavy shelling began overnight targeting the northeastern suburbs of Zinjibar, which jihadists have controlled since May following fierce fighting with government troops. “Many bases of Qaeda were destroyed,” ...

Dubai, February 29, 2012 (AFP) Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a suicide attack on a presidential palace in southeast Yemen that had killed 26 Republican Guards over the weekend, in a statement released on jihadist forums. “The hero martyr Abu Muhjen al-Sayari attacked with his bomb-laden car Republican Guard troops inside the presidential palace in Mukalla, Hadramawt’s capital, killing nea ...

By ABDUL RAHMAN AL-RASHED February 28,2012 By taking the presidential oath, Abdrabo Mansour Hadi became the first Yemeni President to succeed the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh. He was sworn-in “to protect the country’s unity, liberty and territories.” And he has two years to implement that great oath, and we are pretty sure that his mission will never be an easy one. I believe his first rival will be ...