SANA'A, May 05 (Saba)- A poll showed on Monday that 78.3 percent of the respondents had expressed support to the upcoming elections of the mayor of the capital Sana'a and governors of the provinces, which to be held on 17 may, while 21.5 percent said that

SANA'A, May 03 (Saba)- Deputy director of the Tourism Promotion Council (TPC) Alwan al-Shibani revealed that Yemen's tourism sector have been affected due terrorist events took place in Marib and the latest terrorist attack on Belgian tourists in Hadramou

SANA'A, April 26(Saba) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh has ordered the lately-formed committee to no longer continue doing its job related to ending the sedition in the northern province of Saada.

SANA'A, April 17 (Saba) - Health authorities say that "tough measures" are in place to ward off the avian flu which is threatening the lives of thousands of birds in Asia. The government has recently said it has sent health teams to most ports of entry to

RADA'A, April 14 (Saba)- The main road from the Yemeni capital Sana'a to the south divides at Dhamar: one branch continues south to Taiz and Aden, the other runs south-east towards to Rada'a, the impressively fortified town. Rada'a became the capital of t

SANA'A, April 05 (Saba) - A recent study has revealed that the most ancient relationship between the Socotra Island and the ancient states is dating back to 1580- 1322 BC, particularly since the Egyptian trade missions to Yemen and Somalia had been flouri

SANA'A, March 30 (Saba)- The Fund of Agricultural and Fisheries Production (FAFP) has allocated $5 million to support fish projects in the country, Deputy Minister of Fisheries Wealth Abdul-Hadi al-Khadir said.

SANA'A- March 07 (Saba)- Chairman of the Customs Authority (CA) Ali al-Zabidi has revealed that the authority is preparing a blacklist for traders who breach customs law.

SANA'A, March 07 (Saba)- After heavy campaigns that Sana'a municipality carried out last January for cracking down on vendors in Sana'a streets which were successful to some limit, we starting seeing them regrouping in some crossroads of Sana'a streets du

SANA'A, March 05 (Saba)- Although Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Arab region and the only poor in the rich-oil Arabian Peninsula, the government started in recent years paying more attention to the problem of poverty in the country.

SANA'A, Feb. 28 (Saba) - The former UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Yemen Flavia Pansieri urged the government to adopt policies ensuring good use of resources in the country.

SANA'A, Feb. 23 (Saba) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh is set to begin next Monday his first official two-day visit to Turkey to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul on a set of issues and means to promote and expand the areas of cooperatio

SANA'A, Feb. 20 (Saba)- The number of non-governmental organizations working in Yemen in political, human rights, cultural and social fields increased during last three years.

SANA'A, Feb. 04 (Saba)- Roadmap of Yemen's integration to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has highlighted five main trends to qualify Yemen to join the GCC member states according to a scientific insight to fulfill economic integration with the Gulf co

SANA'A, Jan. 30 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh's official visits to Spain, Belgium and the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels is very important because they top the developed Yemeni-European relations particularly during the past two yea

SANA'A, Sept. 16 (Saba)- Official statistics discovered recently the illiteracy rate in Yemen had dropped from 56 percent to 45.7 percent of children aged 10 years and waned among women to 62.1 percent and 29.8 percent among men.

SOCOTRA, (Saba)- Yemen has asked its people to support the nomination of Socotra Island to become one of the New7Wonders of natural monuments and sites to be announced on August 08, 2008.

Development is considered as one of the most important issues in every country in the world. Achieving it, directly or indirectly, is a vital goal in order to build a civil society consists of institutions that organize and run the actual developing whe

By Sowsan Al-Gowfi. Yemeni society did not use to hear about the Valentine a decade ago as it is an occasion confined to the Christian societies. Recently, a tiny segment of younger generation in the main cities started to celebrate the occasion

The Social Development Fund is to carry out(1037 projects with a total cost estimated at $US80 million dollar this year 2005. Based on the fund’s work plan,the Yemeni news agency Saba has got a copy of it, these project