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Yemani protesters wave flags and march through the streets during a demonstration demanding renewed independence in the southern city of Aden on November 30, 2014. Yemeni police shot dead a protester and wounded four others as separatists marched towards the governorate building in the key south city Aden, activists said. AFP PHOTO /STR

‘The Aden Declaration,’ Dangers of a Southern Secession in Yemen

by Salman Al-dossary | May 14, 2017 | Opinion

Southern separatist ambitions in Yemen are not recent news but have been in the backdrop of the Gulf country’s 1994 civil war. At the time, one of the vital factors in stoking conflict between the north and south was the role played by the then president Ali Abdullah...

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A boy walks past soldiers from the Saudi-led coalition patrolling a street in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on September 26, 2015. (Reuters)

Terror Suspects Referred to Yemen’s General Prosecution ahead of Trial

by Sa'ed Al-Abyadh | May 13, 2017 | Middle East

Jeddah – Yemen’s deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Hassan Arab announced that his ministry received the files of a number of suspects linked to terror activities. He told Asharq Al-Awsat that these files will be referred to the General Prosecution, which...

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International airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden July 24, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Aden’s Governor: Improving Services, Fighting Terrorism are my Priorities

by Arafat al-Ahdal | May 7, 2017 | Middle East

Aden – Yemeni President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi has elected a new governor Abdulaziz al-Maflhi following Aidarous Zoubeidi who was appointed an ambassador at the Foreign Ministry. Maflahi announced that his priorities for the coming period is reforming the services...

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Yemeni men attend a gathering held to show support to Houthis, in Sana’a, Yemen December 6, 2016. (File photo: Reuters)

Yemen: Houthi Militias to Scapegoat Saleh in Barter for Settlement Privileges

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 5, 2017 | Middle East

Aden- Houthi militias in Yemen have threatened to kill the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, stressing that he will be punished severely, reported the Saudi Press Agency SPA. A broadcasting channel affiliated with Iran-aligned putschist leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi...

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This file photo taken on March 16, 2016, shows Yemeni men carrying food aid provided by the World Food Program (WFP). (AFP)

WFP Admits Transferring Rotten Wheat Aid to Aden

by Abdul Hadi Habtor | May 3, 2017 | Middle East

Riyadh – The Yemen Society for Consumer Protection (YACP) has said that 32,000 tons of rotten wheat, which was grown in the US, have been sent to Yemen. The YACP obtained a report and photographs of a World Food Program (WFP) ship, which was unloading rotten wheat in...