Yemen
October 12, 2000
An inflatable craft rammed a US navy destroyer Thursday, causing an explosion that left at least four sailors dead, 30 wounded and one missing in the
October 9, 2000
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salen said that Yemen supports the Palestinians in defending themselves, and that "we will provide them with the necessa
The Yemeni government has recently announced that the water scarcity crisis over the past few years has forced the government to undertake measures to lessen local qat farming, since this plant consum
October 8, 2000
Thousands of Yemenis have protested against Israeli killings in the Palestinian territories, and pelted the US embassy with garbage and burned Israel\
September 24, 2000
A Yemeni security official claims that Saudi Arabian authorities have detained seven experts working for Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. when they
September 23, 2000
More than 90 people have died in Yemen of Rift Valley Fever, a disease which has also taken lives in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
Villagers killed two soldiers and wounded three others in southern Yemen when they tried to arrest a former leader of the opposition Yemen Socialist P
September 20, 2000
Yemeni health authorities have announced that some 77 people have died in Yemen in the last two days from Rift Valley fever.
The Norwegian Oil Company (DNO), which owns 45 percent of the Block 32 license in Yemen, has reported the start of test-production from oil well number 3 at the Tasour field in Yemen.
September 12, 2000
The activities of the regional conference on the German development services, organized by the German Development Corporation, kicked off on Monday, w
September 10, 2000
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, 58, has undergone "routine" medical tests in the United States after taking part in the UN millennium summit in
September 9, 2000
The World Bank has approved a 21.3-million-dollar credit to Yemen to improve irrigation projects in the country.
September 7, 2000
A truck has crashed into a minibus in southern Yemen killing 14 people, including three children.
September 6, 2000
The Yemeni coffee output grew steadily during the 1990s, as a result of the implementation of developed local irrigation methods and technologies including the building of dams and water barriers.
NATURAL GAS: With natural gas reserves of 16.9 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), Yemen has considerable potential as a natural gas producer and exporter. The bulk of Yemen's gas reserves are concentrated i