Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 2/8/1999
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of February 8, 1999
- Yemeni Ministry of Interior seized 62 cases of explosives in Aden in 1998
Yemeni Minister of Interior General Hussein Arab announced that security bodies have been able to seize 62 cases of explosives in Aden alone last year that targeted Yemen's security and stability. Yemen, Politics, 2/13/1999 - Yemen, Britain try to repair their rift
Yemen and Britain seek to restore relations between them as well as to alleviate tensions that resulted from the deaths of British tourists after they were kidnapped by extremists in Yemen. Yemen-UK, Politics, 2/12/1999 - Yemeni Premier has Malaria Yemen, People, 2/12/1999
- 55% reduction in petroleum revenues in Yemen
The Yemeni government's revenues from exporting crude oil in 1998 reached nearly $454 million, a retreat of 52.2% the revenues reported in 1997. Yemen, Economics, 2/12/1999 - Yemen liberates wheat prices
The Yemeni government began at the beginning of the current week to implement a plan liberating the government-controlled price of wheat and to continue subsidizing the purchase of wheat. Yemen, Economics, 2/11/1999 - Yemen continues trial of foreigners' kidnappers
Lawyers defending the five British and one Algerian suspects currently being tried in Yemen under terrorism charges on Tuesday asked the court to find that the suspects are not guilty, noting that there were procedural errors taken against the suspects. Yemen, Judicial, 2/10/1999 - Britain expresses readiness to try an extremist
Yemeni Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah al-Aedi has announced that Britain expressed its readiness to try the extremist Abu Hamzeh al-Masri if it would be proven that he is involved in acts of violence carried out in Yemen. Yemen-UK, Politics, 2/9/1999 - Yemen: Two German hostages freed
Yemeni security sources said on Sunday that tribal groups in Yart district of al-Jouf province, 174 km north of the capital, Sanaa, released two German hostages, a woman and her son Yemen, Local, 2/8/1999 - Yemeni delegation holds negotiations in Eritrea on gas, petroleum derivatives Yemen-Eritrea, Economics, 2/8/1999
- Yemen tries foreigners accused of terrorist acts Yemen, Judicial, 2/8/1999