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  Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية), composed of former North and South Yemen, is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west.
Yemen was one of the oldest centres of civilization in the Near East.
Yemen is in Southwest Asia, in the south of Arabia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, west of Oman and south of Saudi Arabia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yemen   (1896 words)

  
 Yemen - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Republic of Yemen is a country in the ArabianPeninsula in Southwest Asia, and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the ArabianSea, Gulf of Aden, and RedSea, between Oman and SaudiArabia.
Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East.
Yemen is in Southwest Asia, in the south of Arabia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, west ofOman and south of Saudi Arabia.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Ye   (1624 words)

  
 yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Republic of Yemen is a country in the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia.
North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918.
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oil production, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Yemen.html   (273 words)

  
 Global Food for Education Progra
Yemen is bordered on the north by Saudi Arabia, on the east by Oman, on the south by the Gulf of Aden, and on the west by the Red Sea.
Yemen is one of the poorest areas of the Arabian Peninsula.
Yemen’s gender gap in literacy is among the widest in the world, with only a 23.5% literacy rate for females as opposed to a 72.3% literacy rate for males.
www.fas.usda.gov /excredits/FoodAid/FFE/gfe/2004/middleeast/yemen.htm   (2331 words)

  
 i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - Polio outbreak spreads across Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Yemen had been polio-free since disease surveillance began in 1996 - a genetic investigation is ongoing to determine the precise origin of the outbreak.
Use of mOPV1 is expected during a nationwide immunization campaign in the second half of May. Yemen had already conducted a mass campaign on 11-14 April, as the country was considered to be at high-risk of polio re-infection from nearby Sudan where an outbreak of polio continues.
Yemen is the most recent of fifteen polio-free countries that have reported cases of polio since the epidemic began in late 2003.
i-newswire.com /pr17918.html   (591 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
...U.S. authorities have renewed their focus on Yemen as a nexus of terror in recent weeks, and are increasingly worried about t...
The Republic of Yemen is a country in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt under Nasser aided the southern Marxist Yemen force militarily, including the use of chemical weapons, specifically mustard gas and perhaps an organophosphate nerve agent, against royalist troops in North Yemen.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Yemen   (748 words)

  
 Yemen Governorates
Yemen Gateway, an independent organization devoted to the study of Yemen, reports that a presidential decree was issued on 1998-07-29, creating two new governorates: Amran and Al-Dali'.
In 1900, North Yemen was the vilayet of Yemen in the Ottoman Empire.
Roughly, governorate I corresponded to present-day `Adan and part of Lahij; governorate II to the rest of Lahij; III to Abyan; IV to Shabwah; V to Hadramawt; and VI to Al Mahrah.
www.statoids.com /uye.html   (1008 words)

  
 Yemen-Polio, 2nd Writethru
Yemen is the most recent of 15 previously polio-free countries that have reported new cases since 2003 after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria was blamed for causing an outbreak that spread the disease to other countries.
WHO has yet to determine whether the strain in Yemen was the same as that which spread from Nigeria.
The outbreak in Yemen is the latest setback to WHO's hopes of eradicating the disease globally by the end of 2005.
www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050429/w042922.html   (554 words)

  
 Read about Yemen at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Yemen and learn about Yemen here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
19th century, north Yemen was part of the Ottoman Empire, and in some periods its Imams exerted control over south Yemen.
In the south, pre-independence economic activity was overwhelmingly concentrated in the port city of Aden.
1962 revolution, the Yemen Arab Republic became closely allied with and heavily dependent upon Egypt.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Yemen   (1547 words)

  
 Overview of Polio Epidemic in Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On 4 April WHO Yemen was informed by Hudeida governorate health authorities of a cluster of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases in children, the first cases of which had occurred in February 2005.
Yemen already conducted a nationwide immunization campaign on 13-15 April, to immunize all of the country's 4.5 million children under the age of five years.
WHO is working with the Ministry of Health in Yemen to plan for further intensive house-to-house immunization activities in the immediate geographic vicinity of the cases.
www.rxpgnews.com /world/epidemics/poliomyelitis/article_1305.shtml   (1721 words)

  
 YEMEN, Landmine Monitor Report 2001
Yemen voted in favor of the November 2000 UN General Assembly resolution in support of the Mine Ban Treaty.
Yemen has not yet submitted the annual Article 7 report that was due 30 April 2001 (to cover calendar year 2000).
The government of Yemen is developing a national mine action capacity capable of planning and managing all mine action activities.
www.icbl.org /lm/2001/yemen   (3848 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Well, so are Pakistan and Yemen, the far more likely hiding places for al-Qaeda leaders.
One militant normally based in Yemen wrote a mocking account of trying to make a telephone call.
Two protesters in Yemen were killed as they tried to storm the American embassy.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/read.php?offset=30&id=329&sortby=   (702 words)

  
 Governorates - Issue 41 - Yemen Times
In view of the relationship between Yemen and Romania, the authorities in Mukala helped crews to remove the wreckage.
Yemen and all environmental associations have the right to refer this matter to the international associations.
Yemen also has the right to request compensations for the big influence which is expected to happen.
www.yementimes.com /99/iss41/govern.htm   (419 words)

  
 Yemen Accelerated Learning Activity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The project is structured around two objectives: enhance access to primary education in the public sector and increase literacy and numeracy opportunities at the community level.
Yemen’s educational attainment rates are among the lowest in the world.
Only 45 percent of all rural primary age children, and only about 30 percent of rural girls, are currently enrolled in school.
www.aed.org /Projects/YALA.cfm   (188 words)

  
 Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Main article: Governorates of Yemen Yemen is divided into governorates.
It is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "Cradle of Humanity." Given the country’s geographical position, poised 'twixt the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, and its great cultural continuum, it is not perhaps surprising that the Yamaani Music is immensely rich and varied.
In February 1989, north Yemen joined Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt informing the Arab Cooperation Council (ACC), an organization created partly in response to the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and intended to foster closer economic cooperation and integration among its members.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Y/Yemen.htm   (1808 words)

  
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Polio outbreak spreads across Yemen New vaccine to be used for 1st time in outbreak response, as more cases are expected ------------------------ 18 new cases of polio have today been announced in Yemen, bringing the reported total number associated with an outbreak in the country to 22.
The latest 18 cases occurred across [5] governorates throughout Yemen, including in [2] districts in the country's capital Sanaa, suggesting the virus had spread across the country.
Yemen had already conducted a mass campaign on 11-14 Apr 2005, as the country was considered to be at high risk of polio re-infection from nearby Sudan, where an outbreak of polio continues.
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 pelbed.html
The Republic of Yemen is located in the southeastern area of the Arabian Peninsula between latitudes of 12-20 north and longitudes 41-54 east.
Yemen topographically can be divided into 4 regions: The Coastal areas, the western Highlands, the eastern Plateau, and the Empty Quarter (Al-Rub'a Al- Khali), in addition to the islands (Central Statistical Organization, 1999; Balfaquih 1997).
Yemen has a diverse climate and topography that resulted in a diverse plant cover and biodiversity in flora and fauna.
www.aiys.org /webdate/pelsal.html   (3789 words)

  
 Elections in Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Yemen (Arabic: اليمن / Yaman) is a country in Arabia.
Yemen has a population of around 19 million on 527,970 km².
Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 6 and on civil rights with a 5, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free).
www.electionworld.org /yemen.htm   (222 words)

  
 DAN Divers Alert Network : New Cases of Poliomyelitis (Polio) Identified in Yemen & Indonesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
May 4, 2005 YEMEN 18 new cases of polio have today been announced in Yemen, bringing the reported total number associated with an outbreak in the country to 22.
The latest 18 cases occurred across five governorates throughout Yemen, including in two districts in the country's capital Sanaa and suggesting the virus had spread across the country.
Yemen is the most recent of fifteen polio-free countries that have reported cases of polio since the epidemic began.
www.diversalertnetwork.org /news/article.asp?newsid=578   (771 words)

  
 USAID: Yemen
Yemen's 18.5 million population, which is predominantly rural, faces enormous economic and social challenges.
The USAID Program: USAID's overall goal in Yemen is to support the United States Government's (USG) foreign policy objectives in the war on terrorism by helping to develop a healthy and educated population with access to diverse economic opportunities.
The program focuses on the five target governorates of Amran, Sa'ada, Al-Jawf, Marib, and Shabwa, long known to be the main sources of, and havens for, domestic and international terrorism in Yemen.
www.usaid.gov /policy/budget/cbj2006/ane/ye.html   (841 words)

  
 Yemen Article, Yemen Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oilproduction, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998.
Yemen has embarked on an IMF-supported structural adjustment programdesigned to modernize and streamline the economy, which has led to foreign debt relief and restructuring.
Aided by higher oilprices in 1999, Yemen worked to maintain tight control over spending and implement additional components of the IMF program.
www.anoca.org /article/main/yemen.html   (287 words)

  
 Polio outbreak in Yemen grows to 22 cases, UN health agency says   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Yemen, polio-free since 1996, now has an outbreak of 22 confirmed cases, and low immunization rates among the children of the Red Sea country may help the spread of the paralyzing virus, the United Nations public health agency said today.
The latest 18 cases occurred across five governorates throughout Yemen, including in two districts in the country’s capital, Sanaa, and suggesting that the virus had spread across the country,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
Yemen has been considered at high risk of a polio outbreak since resurgent polio spread to Sudan, with Nigeria accounting for about 60 per cent of the worldwide toll.
www.un.org /apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=14124&Cr=polio&Cr1=   (329 words)

  
 sufi.html
Accordingly, several stratigraphic contexts of potential interest were identified in southern Yemen, and prospection of these was added to the objectives of an extended expedition.
The Ar Rhyashia interbeds lie stratigraphically high in the Yemen Volcanic Series, and we estimate them to be of earliest Miocene age, upwards of 20 million years old.
All elements of the flora and fauna agree with the notion that this facies of the Habshiya Formation was deposited in a nearshore marine environment that interfaced with a tropical rainforest environment onshore via a marshy, lagoonal shoreline.
www.aiys.org /webdate/tatt.html   (1865 words)

  
 Governorates of Yemen
At the uniting of North and South Yemen, Aden was declared the commercial capital of the YAR and a free trade zone.
Djiblah: Situated 8km south of Ibb, on a hill of basalt between two connecting valleys, this is another former capital of the Yemen from the Middle Ages.
This is the northernmost provincial capital of Yemen, an ancient city built of clay bricks and mud.
www.freewebs.com /4yemen/governorates.htm   (1104 words)

  
 UNICEF - Press centre - Polio outbreak spreads across Yemen
Teams of WHO and Ministry of Health epidemiologists and paediatricians remain on the ground, to investigate and control the outbreak and to intensify the planning for appropriate supplementary immunization activities.
Yemen had already conducted a mass campaign on 11-14 April, as the country was considered to be at high-risk of polio re-infection from nearby Sudan where an outbreak of polio continues.
However, a global funding gap of US$50 million must urgently be filled by July, to finance continued intensification of immunization campaigns in the second half of the year.
www.unicef.org /media/media_26327.html   (612 words)

  
 Polio Epidemic Continues in Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The WHO is investigating the genetics of the virus to determine if the virus came from Saudi Arabia or Sudan, where polio cases have been reported in the past year.
Four cases of polio were found on April 20 in the South Western part of Yemen, on the Red Sea coast.
The 18 newly found cases of polio were confirmed in five governorates throughout Yemen.
www.foodconsumer.org /777/8/Polio_Epidemic_Continues_in_Yemen.shtml   (265 words)

  
 Islamic Army of Aden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The group reportedly was behind an attack in June 2003 against a medical assistance convoy in the Abyan Governorate.
Although Yemeni officials previously have claimed that the group is operationally defunct, their recent attribution of the attack in 2003 against the medical convoy and reports that al-Yazidi was released from prison in mid-October 2003 suggest that the IAA, or at least elements of the group, have resumed activity.
Operates in the southern governorates of Yemen—primarily Aden and Abyan.
www.fas.org /irp/world/para/iaa.htm   (208 words)

  
 albawaba.com middle east news information::Yemen: $65 million iron factory to be established   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A Chinese company is willing to establish a factory for car assembly in the Free Area of Aden and to open branches in the industrial areas planned to be established in inner Yemeni governorates, Yemen's Minister of Industry and Trade Dr. Khaled Sheikh stated.
In addition, actions are currently being taken to establish an iron factory in Lahj Governorate with a production capacity of 600 thousand tons per year.
The factory, whose cost would total $65 million, will be funded by a Yemeni-German capital, and another factory will be opened by the second half of this year with a production capacity of 100 thousand tons per year, the Yemeni minister added.
www.albawaba.com /en/countries/Yemen/181141   (192 words)

  
 UNDP-POGAR: Country Index: Web Links
Organization of International Solidarity - Yemen Program: A French non-governmental organization founded in 1989 and active in the field of international solidarity and development.
Yemen - Governorate of the Green Banner (Liwa' al-Akhdar) [in Arabic]:
Yemen - Law of Local Government [in Arabic]: From the National Information Center.
www.undp-pogar.org /countries/links.asp?cid=22&thid=6   (95 words)

  
 Governorates of Yemen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Governorates of Yemen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
(A republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990) Yemen is divided into 19 (additional info and facts about governorate) governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah):
note: there may be one additional governorate of the capital city of (The capital and largest city of Yemen; on the central plateau) Sanaá.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/governorates_of_yemen.htm   (87 words)

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