Yemen 24: A Webblog about Yemen

Moneer Al-Omari   Yemeni Journalists staged a sit-in a week ago, July 9, 2015, at the headquarters of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) in Sana’a in protest against the continuous violations of press freedoms and the illegal and unlawful acts by Houthi militia that targeted dozens of independent and opposing media outlets and journalists. According to the Secretary General of the YJS Marwan Dammaj, eight journalists have been killed since the beginning of war in Yemen, 12 have been kidnapped and forcibly disappeared and over 300 journalists lost their jobs. As Houthis advanced from Amran and took over Sana’a back in September 2014, they have harshly fought all sorts of freedoms. They have also committed serious violations of human rights and public freedoms. Freedom of speech was tightly restricted and political opponents were harshly targeted. However, the violations of human rights and freedom of expression and opinion by Houthi militia have markedly increased ...

Indigenous Approach to Water Resources Management and Conflict Resolution in Yemen Moneer Al-Omari* Yemen's ancient civilization was agricultural in nature. Later, commerce came to be important as well, given the fact that the country is situated on the famous trade route of spices best known as the " Spices Road" which connects South East Asia including China and India with ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt and beyond. The country was also producing some of these spices like frankincense. However, having fertile lands and adequate rainfall were good reasons for developing an agriculture-based civilization. This has prompted the Greek Geographer Ptolemy   to call it Eudaimon Arabia (the Arabia Felix in Latin or the Happy Arabia in English). Sustainability, in its modern representation, is not new for Yemenis who used to be very sensitive in the use of natural resources around them. They have carefully worked towards a balanced, right...