By Andrew Hammond SANAA | Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:56pm BST (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Yemen says the government is fighting an effective war against al Qaeda militants but he is concerned about security lapses during an attack on the […]
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:40 GMT * Artists paint activists in “The Walls Remember” project * Youth activists, political opponents among those missing * Govt asks families to come forward with cases from 2011 By Andrew Hammond SANAA, Sept 25 (Reuters) – […]
Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:27 GMT By Andrew Hammond SANAA, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Ousted Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh is interfering in the Arabian Peninsula state’s transition process but Western countries are still reluctant to cut him off completely, a Yemeni […]
By Andrew Hammond SANAA | Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:56pm BST (Reuters) – Yemen will investigate alleged human rights violations that occurred during an uprising last year, officials said on Wednesday, possibly opening the way to prosecution of ousted President Ali Abdullah […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Sat Oct 8, 2011 2:22pm EDT (Reuters) – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s declaration in a speech on Saturday that he would leave power “in the coming days” is yet another act of brinkmanship from a leader […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Burned, wounded and forced into medical exile in Riyadh, Ali Abdullah Saleh had seemed down and out, but a bravura speech by the Yemeni leader suggests he might yet return home to a country convulsed by months of unrest, […]
By Andrew Hammond and Isabel Coles DUBAI | Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:00pm EDT (Reuters) – Burned, wounded and forced into medical exile in Riyadh, Ali Abdullah Saleh had seemed down and out, but a bravura speech by the Yemeni leader suggests […]
An arresting set of US diplomatic cables from the Sanaa embassy have been released recently by Wikileaks concerning Saudi-Yemeni relations. They paint a picture of Yemen as a country President Ali Abdullah Saleh has reduced to vassal status with the “big brother” Saudi Arabia, which […]
It’s summer in Saudi and that means one thing: Saudi ‘foreign policy’, such as it is, is on hold. The Saudi foreign ministry amounts to the minister, Saud al-Faisal and … well, that’s about it. Except that the king appointed this week […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:13am BST (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has helped damp down democracy movements sweeping the Arab world but is waiting now to see how events play out in places like Syria and Yemen for […]