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	Jizan Province at AllExperts
		Jizan (Arabic: Ø¬ÙØ²Ø§Ù) is a province of Saudi Arabia.
		Though the climate on the highlands is similar to the relatively wetter climate of 'Asir, the coastal regions of Jizan province are part of Tihamah, probably the hottest place in the world, with mean maximum temperatures ranging from 40Â°C (104Â°F) in July to 31Â°C (88Â°F) in January.
		Saudi Arabia annexed 'Asir, Najran, and Jizan from Yemen in 1934.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/ji/jizan_province.htm (341 words)

	Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever -- Saudi Arabia, August-October, 2000. - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Suspected severe case-patients investigated to date resided in or visited the floodplains of the wadis (i.e., seasonal riverbeds) that emanate from the foothills of the Sarawat mountains and extend south of Jeddah to the border of Yemen (Figure 1).
		Of the 316 suspected cases, 304(96%) have been reported from the southern coastal province of Jizan (1992 population: 860,000) and the contiguous Asir and Al Quenfadah health regions.
		Additional studies are planne d to assess the magnitude of the outbreak, to define infection rates among high-risk groups, such as veterinarians and slaughterhouse workers, and to determine evidence for nosocomial transmission.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-66491078.html (789 words)

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		Authorities in the province have imposed emergency measures after cases of the disease were detected in the past few days.
		The town of Jizan, near the Yemeni border, is known for its heat and humidity at this time of year, combined with recent seasonal heavy rains makes it an ideal breeding ground for mosquitos.
		The town of Jizan is home to a large number of expatriates, from Africa, South Asia, the Far East and Yemen.
	www.angelfire.com /ia2/Revelations/ptext/saudimysteryvirus.doc (634 words)

	Saudi Arabia's mystery virus traced to ...
		The authorities in Jizan province imposed emergency measures after cases of the
		Jizan province lies around 300km from the coast of Africa across the Red Sea.
		The town of Jizan is known for its heat and humidity at this time of year which, combined with recent seasonal heavy rains, makes it an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivejuly/000918102.htm (242 words)

	Gulfnews: Saudis foil arms smuggling bid
		Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz said after the talks that his country had built "hurdles such as sand dikes" on its side of the border and was discussing construction of similar dikes on the Yemeni side.
		The new measures are intended to "stop terrorists and those on the wanted list published by the ministry of interior (December 6) from escaping to Yemen as well as curbing drug and weapons smuggling operations," Saudi security sources said.
		The head of the border police in Najran province, Abdullah Abu Nab, said that authorities in Najran completed the distribution of infrared cameras at the Khbash centre that overlooks the Yemeni border, adding that the authorities were ready to counter any "unusual behaviour."
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/04/02/23/111809.html (575 words)

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		It said a team of experts had been sent to the region to spray the mosquito-infested areas and to dispose of dead livestock.
		Saudi newspapers on Saturday reported up to 30 deaths in Jizan, near the Yemeni border, from a mysterious disease which affected the area and that specimens had been sent for analysis to Washington [probably Atlanta], London and Riyadh.
		The authorities in Jizan province imposed emergency measures after cases of the disease were detected The disease can cause bleeding from the mouth, ears and nose, eye lesions and encephalitis but symptoms more usually resemble those of influenza.
	www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:183627::::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_ARCHIVE_NUMBER,F2400_P1001_USE_ARCHIVE:1001,20000917.1592,Y (1000 words)

	King Abdullah launches key development projects in Jizan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King Abdullah launched a new economic city in Jizan that is expected to attract more than $26.7 billion [SR 100 billion] in investment and create almost half a million jobs.
		In remarks on the occasion, the King said highlighted Jizan’s ongoing development and announced the establishment of the Jizan Economic City.
		He also noted that a study would be conducted to explore the feasibility of establishing an oil refinery in Jizan Province.
	www.saudiembassy.net /2006News/News/TraDetail.asp?cIndex=6634 (283 words)

	WorldTribune.com: Saudis crack down on flood of immigrants from Yemen
		The police said it had detained 51,811 people during the Islamic pilgrimage.
		Talal Al Angawi, director-general of the Saudi Border Guards said 47,599 illegal migrants were arrested in the southern Jizan province, which borders Yemen.
		Al Angawi said another 2,405 infiltrators were arrested in Asir and Najran, two other provinces along the Yemeni border.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2004/me_saudis_04_13.html (351 words)

	Planet Ark - Rift Valley Fever death toll rises in Yemen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was the first outside the southern province of Jizan where the disease was first detected about two weeks ago.
		Saudi sources, who declined to be named, told Reuters on Saturday the disease may already have spread outside Jizan province, possibly in livestock sent outside the area before health measures were imposed.
		Saudi Arabia has shut schools in Jizan, which is on the border with Yemen, and ordered people leaving the area to undergo medical tests.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=8323 (414 words)

	SUSRIS - Saudi Municipal Elections
		Eastern Province, Asir, Jizan, Najran, and Baha Regions.
		That might be so but many candidates discovered to their dismay that most of their friends and relatives never registered to vote and thus couldn’t support them.
		Voters in the Asir, Baha, Jizan and Najran regions will also go to polls today in the second phase of elections aimed at picking half the members of the country’s 178 municipal councils.
	www.saudi-us-relations.org /articles/2005/nid/050303-saudi-elections.html (984 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmad bin Abd al-Aziz said after the talks his country had built "hurdles such as sand dikes" on its side of the border and was discussing construction of similar dikes on the Yemeni side.
		Saudi security forces have frequently clashed with smugglers from Yemen - the governor of Jizan said last year border guards "find an arms haul every hour" - but the dispute over the barrier has put the problem in the spotlight.
		Saudi officials are likely to point to Friday's night-time arms seizure as proof that its unsealed borders continue to give smugglers the chance to supply those behind last year's bombing that killed more than 50 people in Riyadh.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/2122C329-447C-489B-891A-356BE235D9E4.htm (312 words)

	Saudi policeman, 3 militants killed -DAWN - Top Stories; September 24, 2003
		RIYADH, Sept 23: At least one Saudi policeman and three militants were killed on Tuesday in a shootout at a hospital compound in the south of the kingdom, the latest in a series of clashes involving suspected Al Qaeda members.
		The poor mountainous Jizan province is a stronghold for militants and is also notorious for arms smuggling.
		Jizan is home to some of the 15 Saudi hijackers in the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the United States landmarks, which Osama has implied Al Qaeda was responsible for.
	www.dawn.com /2003/09/24/top9.htm (343 words)

	Earth Change News on Earth Changes TV on the Web
		An outbreak of an illness which has killed at least 16 people in the Saudi province of Jizan has been identified as Rift Valley Fever (RVF).
		A spokesman for the Saudi health authorities said the disease had been transmitted by sheep and a large number of animals had died recently in Jizan.
		The authorities in Jizan province imposed emergency measures after cases of the disease were detected
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/September2000/0918saudi.htm (318 words)

	Yahoo! News - Saudi Policeman, Three Militants Dead in Shootout
		At least one Saudi policeman and three militants were killed Tuesday in a shootout at a hospital compound in the south of the kingdom, the latest in a series of clashes involving suspected al Qaeda members.
		The poor mountainous Jizan province is a stronghold for Islamist militants and is also notorious for arms smuggling.
		Jizan is home to some of the 15 Saudi hijackers in the Sept.
	www.intellnet.org /news/2003/09/23/19929-1.html (556 words)

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		The announcement came as the King attended a festivity organized by the residents of Jizan that was also attended by the Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammed.
		The King highlighted that Jizan is at the beginning of its journey towards a prosperous industrial and agricultural future.
		It is expected that the Jizan’s economic city will attract over 100 billion Saudi Riyals (26.6 billion US Dollars) of industrial, commercial and residential investments upon completion of the city’s infrastructure.
	www.aawsat.com /english/news.asp?section=1&id=6944 (447 words)

	The Black Vault - Saudi Policeman, Three Militants Dead in Shootout
		RIYADH (Reuters) - At least one Saudi policeman and three militants were killed on Tuesday in a shootout at a hospital compound in the south of the kingdom, the latest in a series of clashes involving suspected al Qaeda members.
		The poor mountainous Jizan province is a stronghold for Islamist militants and notorious for arms smuggling from Yemen.
		Jizan is home to some of the 15 Saudi hijackers in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, which bin Laden has implied al Qaeda was responsible for.
	www.bvalphaserver.com /article8281.html (787 words)

	Saudi Ports Authority
		These concessions and arrangements will continue for a period of five years starting from the date of coming into force.
		In addition to the above mentioned new measures, the Ports Authority has in the past taken several steps to support Jizan Port which are as follows:
		His Excellency, the Minister also said that such concessions and privileges granted to Jizan Port not only meant for boosting the operational activities in the port, but also there are a lot of social and economical dimensions that the government of the Custodian of the Holy Mosques wishes to achieve.
	www.ports.gov.sa /section/full_story.cfm?aid=459 (283 words)

	Saudi floggings, July 2006 - CORPUN ARCHIVE saj00607
		The old man confessed that he was a serious alcoholic, and that his greatest joy was to herd camels in the desert while drunk.
		He was arrested, and this time the court sentenced him to four years in prison and 1,000 lashes.
		JIZAN, 17 July 2006 — A court in Beesh in Jizan province sentenced a Saudi youth to four years in jail and 2,000 lashes for assaulting his parents.
	www.corpun.com /saj00607.htm (407 words)

	The Daily Mail - Daily News from Pakistan - Newspaper from Pakistan
		This is in addition to what is grown in some areas of the Kingdom’s south — specifically the Fifa mountains in Jizan province.
		Perhaps that is why despite regular anti-qat operations in Fifa and elsewhere and rewards of SR100 for every qat plant reported, elimination remains such a challenge.
		This week it was announced that an intergovernmental committee on development in Jizan was working out, in addition to major infrastructural schemes to develop the region, further ideas to eradicate Qat production there.
	www.dailymailnews.com /200606/01/dmeditorialpage.html (936 words)

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		Most of the problems were recognized in the regions close to the mountains, where terraced agriculture utilizes the rainfall catchment in the narrow wadi clefts and valleys.
		Whether this current outbreak of disease is the result of a recent introduction or is an extremely rare epizootic occurrence in an existing enzootic area is not known at present.
		The simultaneous appearance of foci of RVF activity in Jizan Province of Saudi Arabia and in many of the wadis in Yemen, from the Saudi border southwards, does suggest the simultaneous emergence of RVF virus at widely distant foci.
	www.fao.org /docrep/003/x9550e/X9550E03.htm (3587 words)

	CDC - Genetic Analysis of Viruses Associated with Emergence of Rift Valley Fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, 2000-01
		This isolate was obtained from a serum sample collected on September 13, 2000, from this case-patient (Table 1), who was infected in Jizan Province.
		The outbreak involved a broad geographic area, including Jizan and Asir Provinces in southwestern Saudi Arabia and much of the western coastal plain of Yemen.
		Few genetic differences were detected between viruses sampled early and late in the outbreak or from the distant geographic regions of Jizan and Asir Provinces in Saudi Arabia and areas of Western Yemen.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol8no12/02-0195.htm (3287 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| Surviving disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) said a recent outbreak of RVF in the Jizan region in southwestern Saudi Arabia was the first outside Africa.
		More than 50 people had reported dead from a RVF outbreak in Yemen, said FAO, and the Al-Hudaydah province at the western coast of Yemen had reported high abortion rates in livestock as well as numerous deaths of young calves and sheep.
		The affected area borders Saudi Arabia's Jizan province, where 16 people are known to have died last week, said the statement.
	www.plusnews.org /webspecials/disaster/20000922som.asp (1614 words)

	Saudi businessman secures Indian's release - Printer Friendly Page - World - Telugu Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dubai, June 6 (IANS) His love for Indians made a Saudi Arabian businessman fly from Riyadh to Jizan at his own expense to secure the release of an Indian truck driver who was jailed for causing an accident.
		Businessman Abdullah Al-Nahadh came to know that an Indian truck driver, K. Mohammed, was jailed in Jizan, a province in southwestern Saudi Arabia, after he collided with a Yemeni national.
		According to the report, Al-Nahadh flew to Jizan Saturday, secured Mohammed's release and brought the Indian back to Riyadh.
	www.teluguportal.net /modules/news/print.php?storyid=5365 (222 words)

	Ain-Al-Yaqeen - April 16, 2004 - Article 7
		Talal Al-Angawi, director general of the border guards, said the majority (47,599 people) was arrested in the southern Jizan province, on the long porous border with Yemen, while 702 were held at the country's northern border with Iraq.
		As many as 255 infiltrators were held in the Eastern Province, 53 in the Makkah region and four in the Al-Jouf region.
		Two other dealers were questioned in the mountainous area of Jizan, according to the Director General of Saudi Border Security, Gen. Talal Al-Angawi and other senior coast guard officers in the two regions.
	www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20040416/feat7en.htm (3952 words)

	CDC Malaria Information for Travelers to the Middle East
		If you become ill with a fever or flu-like illness either while traveling in a malaria-risk area or after you return home (for up to 1 year), you should seek immediate medical attention and should tell the physician your travel history.
		Iran: Risk in the provinces of Sistan-Baluchestan, the southern tropical part of Kerman, and Hormozgan.
		Turkey: Risk in the provinces of Icel, Adana, Hatay, Kahraman Maras, Gaziantep, Adryaman, Sanliurfa, Elazig, Diyarbakar, Mardin, Bingol, Mus, Batman, Bitlis, Siirt, Sirnak, Van, and Hakkari.
	permanent.access.gpo.gov /lps1611/www.cdc.gov/travel/regionalmalaria/mideast.htm (1951 words)

	Global Oral Health - CAPP
		Saudi province population as percentage of total KSA Saudi population
		The percentage referral of non-habit-proximity oral cancer sites (oral cancers not related to the site where shamma is habitually placed) from Jizan province was only 6.2% when compared to 35.4% of habit-proximity oral cancer sites from the same province.
		The use of shamma in KSA is most commonly practiced in Jizan province, although not limited to this province only.
	www.whocollab.od.mah.se /emro/saudi/data/saudimucos.html (403 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		A health ministry official, who asked not to be identified, said earlier that at least 77 people have died in Yemen in the past two days from the illness.
		Rift Valley Fever was first reported in the kingdom on September 11th in Jizan province bordering Yemen.
		The fever, which affects domestic animals and can be transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, is believed to have been introduced to Saudi Arabia via sheep, a large number of which recently died in Jizan, according to the ministry.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-english/dowalia/news-2000-sep-21/topnews15.asp (427 words)

	Arabian Shrimp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arabian Shrimp Company is on a 5,000 hectare subkha site on the Red Sea coast near to the village of Al Qawz.
		This is in the Jizan province in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
		This shrimp species is suited to the high salinity and high temperature conditions found on the Red Sea coast of Jizan province.
	www.arabianshrimp.com /index.html (532 words)

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