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Saba Yemen
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Meeting chaired by Al-Madani to discuss activities implemented during afforestation season
Sana'a - Saba: A meeting in the capital Sana'a on Monday, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Administration and Local and Rural Development Mohammed al-Madani, discussed activities implemented during the afforestation season and plans to enhance vegetation cover in various provinces. In the meeting, which included Ministers of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources, Dr. Radwan al-Rubai Health and Environment, Dr. Ali Shaiban; Chairman of the Agricultural Cooperative Union, Mubarak al-Qili; and a number of agricultural and environmental leaders, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that the government, through the National Committee for Economic Empowerment, is working on parallel tracks to find sustainable alternatives for those who rely on cutting trees as a source of income. He pointed out that protecting the environment is a national and societal responsibility that requires integrated efforts. He emphasized the importance of providing central support to local authorities to enable them to implement afforestation plans, in addition to exploiting the autumn season to expand green areas. He urged the provision of peace tree and jujube tree seeds and the expansion of seedling production, contributing to building a sustainable environment that serves future generations. Al-Madani noted the role of the media, preachers, and dignitaries in raising environmental awareness, stating that Yemeni society, with its rural nature, is qualified to lead the agricultural-ecological transformation, especially with community mobilization through the Agricultural Cooperative Union. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources announced the launch of a national project to plant one million seedlings during the current agricultural season, stressing that the ministry had actually begun implementing the project last March, along with planting 100,000 jujube seedlings in Tihama and Saada, through the ministry's own efforts and the community. Al-Rubai explained that the ministry had established new nurseries in provinces that lacked them, especially Al-Jawf, to strengthen the infrastructure of the agricultural sector, emphasizing that agricultural awareness programs also include summer centers, as part of building a generation with agricultural awareness. For his part, the Minister of Health and Environment pointed out that the deterioration of the vegetation cover impacts public health and the environmental situation, which requires concerted efforts and the development of solutions and alternatives to prevent excessive logging and raise environmental awareness of its risks and harms. Dr. Shaiban emphasized the need for coordination between various stakeholders to provide a healthy and safe environment, calling on all members of society to assume their national responsibilities in preserving and protecting environmental resources. The Chairman of the Agricultural Cooperative Union affirmed the union's commitment to implementing the directives of the Ministry of Agriculture and development partners, highlighting the importance of implementing afforestation campaigns through agricultural cooperatives to ensure direct access to farmers and achieve a real impact on the ground. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Saba Yemen
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Yemeni Republic launches tenth national report on Aggression effects on Yemen
Sana'a - Saba: The Yemeni Republic launched the tenth national report on the effects of the American, British, Zionist, Saudi, and Emirati aggression on Yemen. At a press conference organized by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, attended by the Minister of Health and Environment, Dr. Ali Shayban, Deputy Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Judge Ibrahim Al-Shami, affirmed that the tenth human rights report monitors and documents the effects of the aggression, systematic violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed by the aggressor nations, their tools, mercenaries—both Yemeni and foreign—over ten years of aggression against the Yemeni people. He noted that the aggression, which took multiple forms—including direct bombardment with the most severe internationally prohibited weapons on Yemen's liberated provinces—targeted civilians, civilian infrastructure, densely populated neighborhoods, health, educational, judicial, social, cultural, religious facilities, including those providing humanitarian aid such as food and medicine. Judge Al-Shami stated that, in addition to imposing an unjust and comprehensive siege on Yemen and relocating the functions of the Central Bank of Yemen from Sana'a, the aggressor nations also occupied large parts of the southern and eastern provinces, plundered the country's wealth in those regions, and supported terrorist groups to commit the most heinous crimes against citizens. He explained that the report briefly summarizes the effects and repercussions of the aggression , its mercenaries, presenting figures on the direct , indirect human and material casualties. He pointed out that the statistics included in the report are not final but were compiled by the Ministry of Justice , Human Rights during its monitoring and documentation of the aggression's crimes, in addition to information obtained from various government agencies. He added that the report highlights the deterioration of human rights in Yemen due to the catastrophic suffering endured by Yemenis over a decade of aggression and siege. The Deputy Minister of Justice and Human Rights criticized the international community for failing to fulfill its role in addressing the aggressor nations' human rights violations in Yemen and for not upholding the principles of international law. This, he said, has encouraged the American-Zionist aggression to persist in its brutality, especially after the Yemeni people , their courageous revolutionary and political leadership stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people—considering the Palestinian cause as Yemen's central and foremost issue amid Arab and Islamic inaction. He also emphasized that the tenth human rights report, while bearing witness to the scale of the crimes, stands as a stain on the conscience of the international humanitarian system and a stark condemnation of nations that raise the banners of human rights while killing, funding, and arming murderers. He said: "America has long wielded the slogan of human rights as a sword to justify its interventions, but its history exposes its true nature—especially as it arms the malicious Zionist occupation, which has committed the most heinous crimes against the Palestinian people for decades, and as it obstructs all United Nations resolutions to halt these massacres." Judge Al-Shami expressed astonishment at the United Nations' abject failure to stop the aggression and lift the blockade on Yemen, even to the point of preventing medicine and food from reaching the children of Yemen and Palestine. He considered this international silence not as neutrality but as complicity , participation—rewarding the criminals and punishing the victims. He saluted the resilience of the Yemeni people in the face of brutal American aggression, noting that Yemen has not only resisted the aggression but has also extended its hand to support their brothers and sisters in Palestine. Today, Yemen teaches the world the true meaning of humanitarian solidarity. The Deputy Minister of Justice described the renewed aggression against Yemen as an extension of the supremacist mentality that allows the powerful to plunder the weak—a policy Yemen categorically rejects. He affirmed the Yemeni people's steadfast support for the wise and strategic decisions of the revolution leader, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badruddin Al-Houthi, who established the principles of legitimate resistance against aggression. He called on the international community to uphold its moral, legal, humanitarian responsibilities and not to cover up the crimes of aggression under political pretexts. He stated that Yemen will not relinquish its right to prosecute all those who have spilled the blood of its people. It will use all the documents in its possession as damning evidence of the brutality of the aggression , will work to activate legal , human rights mechanisms, preparing documented case files on the crimes , sending copies to relevant international bodies, such as the Hague Court and others, to prosecute war criminals. Judge Al-Shami praised the efforts of the teams that worked on completing the tenth human rights report, noting that the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights will continue to monitor every crime, document every violation, and refer them to international courts—because the rights of the people do not expire with time, nor do they become obsolete. The blood of the innocent will not be shed in vain. At the conference—attended by the Deputy Ministers of Information, Dr. Omar Al-Bukhayti, and Electricity, Energy, and Water, Adel Bader, as well as representatives from several ministries, organizations, and social figures—Ali Tayseer, the head of the Human Rights Sector at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, described the aggression against Yemen as a historic precedent in which the Yemeni people have written immortal epics that have amazed the world. He noted that the aggression, with its exposed and debunked pretexts, can only be described as cowardly, targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure, historical and archaeological landmarks, and destroying schools, universities, hospitals, airports, and bridges—along with everything related to human life, such as electricity, water, livestock, and fisheries. Tayseer pointed out that the aggression has forcibly displaced around four and a half million children, women, and elderly, creating a complex humanitarian crisis described by the United Nations as the worst disaster in modern history. For ten years, the aggression has employed all types of internationally prohibited weapons. He pointed out that the aggression against Yemen for the past ten years confirms that war criminals know nothing about Yemen's history, which has been a graveyard for invaders. He emphasized that Yemen's battle in support of the Palestinian people is an extension of the legendary resilience of the Yemeni people in the face of brutal aggression. The human rights official at the Ministry of Justice noted that the Yemeni people have neither seen nor heard any response from the United Nations regarding the crimes committed by the aggression. Instead, this organization insists that what is happening in Yemen is nothing more than an internal war, not foreign aggression. He stated, "International and humanitarian laws have become mere ink on paper, and the United Nations is no longer capable of achieving any victory for humanity anywhere. Its existence has become misleading to the world, and it has lost its justification for existing today." Meanwhile, the legal advisor to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Hameed Al-Rafeeq, presented a summary of the tenth national report on the effects of the American, British, Saudi, and Emirati aggression on Yemen. The report revealed that the number of civilian martyrs and wounded due to the aggression from March 26, 2015, to April 26, 2025, reached 95,346 citizens, including 24,126 martyrs, according to preliminary statistics. The report indicated that among the martyrs were 4,176 children and 3,154 women, while 4,175 children and 3,154 women were injured due to the operations of the aggression coalition over the past ten years. Among the victims were 69 doctors and paramedics, including 66 martyrs and three wounded. It also noted that 1,483,023 civilians died as an indirect result of the aggression due to the blockade and military operations, caused by various factors such as chronic diseases, malnutrition, disease outbreaks, chemical toxins, and other illnesses. The report highlighted the increase in maternal mortality rates during the aggression by 160% compared to pre-aggression levels, with 400 deaths per 100,000 births, in addition to a rise in neonatal deaths—100 out of every 1,000 live births die, and 65 children under the age of five perish out of every 1,000. It further stated that 2.9 million children under five suffer from malnutrition out of a total of 5,366,767 children, with 400,000 dying due to severe and acute malnutrition. According to the report, a child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen from diseases related to malnutrition and epidemics. Data indicates that 86% of children under five suffer from some form of anemia, and 9,000 new cancer cases are recorded annually, 15% of which are children. More than 3,000 children suffer from leukemia, and 300 children with leukemia urgently need to travel abroad for treatment. In 2022 alone, over 389 child deaths were recorded due to malnutrition. The aggression has caused 1.8 million women to suffer from malnutrition, with more than 46,000 women dying over ten years due to malnutrition and other complications resulting from the blockade and aggression. Additionally, 120,000 citizens died because they were unable to travel abroad for treatment. More than 4,623 women experienced forced miscarriages due to fear, terror, and the inability of most to reach hospitals and health centers. Numerous health reports have shown that 350,000 cases of abortion were performed to save the lives of pregnant mothers due to health conditions they suffered from, forcing hospitals to prioritize maternal care and save their lives. According to the report, the Ministry of Health recorded over 22,000 cases of fetal deformities, including 1,200 deaths of deformed fetuses in 2022. Additionally, complex deformities were observed that are not listed in the global atlas of fetal abnormalities. Furthermore, 95,850 cancer cases were recorded at the oncology center over ten years, with dozens of patients unable to reach cancer centers due to inability to afford transportation costs or the long distances to these facilities. The Tenth National Report highlighted that more than 37,320 kidney failure patients require over 2.5 million regular dialysis sessions, with 2-3 patients dying daily. Currently, over 5,000 kidney failure patients face severe shortages of essential medications and dialysis supplies, while more than 498 hemodialysis machines in several centers require spare parts. Suspected cholera cases from 2016 to March 2021 reached approximately 2,525,556, with around 3,979 report noted that Yemen witnessed a resurgence of cholera on March 14, 2024, with seven confirmed cases. By July 30, 2024, total cases reached around 122,154, with 461 deaths and 3,378 lab-confirmed cases. The highest cholera infection rates were recorded in Hajjah (21,227 cases, 56 deaths), Amran (15,532 cases, 32 deaths), Dhamar (10,948 cases, 34 deaths), and Al Hudaydah (10,129 cases, 93 deaths). Regarding the aggression's targeting of civilian infrastructure, the Tenth National Report detailed severe damages caused by American, British, Zionist, Saudi, and Emirati aggression across various sectors. - Education: 2,775 educational institutions, 45 universities, and 74 technical institutes damaged. - Industry:408 factories and five grain silos targeted. - Electricity & Communications: 5,601 power grids/stations and 2,181 communication sites/facilities attacked. - Energy: 537 fuel/gas stations, 391 fuel tankers, and 163,000 domestic gas cylinders destroyed. - Transport & Ports:14 ports (repeatedly targeted), four port cranes, nine airports (repeatedly attacked), three airport facilities, four civilian aircraft, and navigation systems, plus six civil aviation and meteorology sectors. In 2023 alone, the aggression targeted 58 visual media institutions, 28 radio transmission centers, and violated 232 media freedoms. Additionally, 49 judicial complexes, courthouses, and record offices were attacked across 33 facilities, along with the houses of 48 judges and judicial workers. 136 sports and youth facilities were also destroyed. Road networks suffered extensively: 7,848 roads and bridges destroyed, 5,378 roads damaged, 133 overpasses targeted, and 8,462 vehicles/transport means wrecked. Public service buildings were not spared: 2,214 government buildings, 11 social welfare fund facilities, 10 social care centers, and one center for the blind were attacked. Religious and cultural sites were heavily targeted: 1,836 mosques, 91 cemeteries/shrines, 419 archaeological/historical sites, and 367 tourist facilities destroyed. The press conference included a documentary showcasing the aggression's violations and crimes against Yemen over the past years. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (Local)
Saba Yemen
26-04-2025
- Health
- Saba Yemen
Health minister chairs meeting to discuss conditions, priorities
Sana'a - Saba: A meeting held today in Sana'a, chaired by the Minister of Health and Environment, Dr. Ali Shaiban, discussed the performance evaluation of the implementation plan for urgent government priority projects. The meeting, which included undersecretaries of the Ministry, directors of health offices, and hospital authorities via video conference, reviewed aspects related to school visits and summer courses to enhance health awareness among students. He addressed the status of private medical facilities and the pricing of medical services, aspects related to updating the Private Medical Facilities Law, the current situation of hospital authorities, and requirements for improving their performance. During the meeting, the Minister of Health emphasized the need to quickly implement plans and projects related to the priority and reform plan for the health sector, and to combine efforts to address emergencies and implement the required interventions. He emphasized the need to raise the level of performance, improve services, strengthen oversight, supervision, and follow-up, and ensure everyone has a sense of responsibility to enhance the role of the health sector in facing challenges. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (Local)
New Straits Times
23-04-2025
- Automotive
- New Straits Times
Kelantan govt plans to ease traffic congestion around Pasar Siti Khadijah
KOTA BARU: The Kelantan government is planning to ease traffic congestion around Pasar Siti Khadijah by providing additional parking at a nearby shopping centre, said state executive councillor for Local Government, Housing, Health and Environment Hilmi Abdullah. "The Kota Baru Municipal Council Islamic City has initiated talks with Parkson to take over its basement parking," he said during the legislative assembly sitting at Kompleks Kota Darulnaim today in reply to a question from Dr Hafidzah Mustakim (PH–Kota Lama). "As a short-term measure, we encourage carpooling during peak hours to help ease congestion in the area. One of the contributing factors to the problem is motorists who stop and wait while making purchases," said Hilmi. In October 2024, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced an additional RM5.5 million allocation to upgrade the infrastructure at Pasar Siti Khadijah, such as sanitation, toilets, roofing and electrical wiring, bringing the total federal funding approved since last year to RM7 million. – Bernama
Saba Yemen
10-04-2025
- Health
- Saba Yemen
Deputy health minister visits National Faculty
Sana'a - Saba: The Deputy Minister of Health and Environment, Dr. Nasher Al-Qaoud, accompanied by the Undersecretary for the Planning Sector, Dr. Abdulmalik Al-Sana'ani, reviewed the progress of work at the National University College of Health Sciences. The Deputy Minister and the Undersecretary, along with the Director of Human Development at the Ministry, Dr. Abdulkarim Al-Khatib, listened to an explanation from the Dean of the College, Dr. Abdullah Muslim, about the progress of work at the college, the infrastructure, equipment, institutional capabilities, and legal legislation that have been achieved, as well as the educational regulations and guides that regulate workflow, academic programs, scientific curricula, and teaching staff. During the visit, the Deputy Minister of Health expressed his appreciation for the efforts made by the college's leadership and the academic and administrative staff in developing the educational process. He emphasized that these efforts are part of the Ministry of Health and Environment's policy, in line with the directions of the National Vision and the Government of Change and Construction. Furthermore, a meeting chaired by the Deputy Minister of Health, attended by the Undersecretary for the Planning Sector and including the Dean of the College, his deputies, and relevant authorities, discussed the draft general plan for registration and admission for the year 2025, which includes the National University College of Health Sciences and the branches of the Higher Institute for Health Sciences in the governorates. Deputy Minister Dr. Al-Qaoud emphasized the importance of the plan's integration of health programs in accordance with the Ministry's policies and meeting needs at the governorate and district levels. He also emphasized the commitment to supporting the college and overcoming all difficulties and challenges to achieve its goals, enhancing its role in providing higher health education that meets the needs of society. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (Local)
