Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 8/18/1997
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of August 18, 1997
- Ghanim to Saudis: make border issue a cooperation bridge
Yemeni Prime Minister Farag Ghanim stated yesterday that Yemen did not want a wall separating Yemen from Saudi Arabia. Yemen-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 8/22/1997 - Yemen asked for a 80 million US dollar loan from the World Bank
Yemen will send a delegation to Washington headed by the governor of the Yemeni Central Bank to seek an 80 million US dollar World Bank loan. Yemen, Economics, 8/22/1997 - Yemen releases 6 detained over Aden explosions
Yemen released 6 detainees who were being held in relation to a series of bombings in Aden early this month. Yemen, Local, 8/21/1997 - Yemenis demonstrate for release of prisoners held without charges
3000 demonstrators in Aden, Yemen demanded the release of 60 prisoners being held without without legal charges in the southern city of Hadramout. Yemen, Politics, 8/19/1997 - Four kidnapped free in Yemen
Four Italian tourists kidnapped by tribesmen north of Sanaa the Yemeni capital were freed, but six others abducted separately in the South were still being held, an Italian embassy spokesman said in Sanaa. Yemen, Local, 8/18/1997