South Africa’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia is in Yemen to try and secure the release of two South Africans kidnapped in the town of Taiz.
Unidentified gunmen have seized two South African citizens in the Yemeni city of Taiz, an interior ministry source has said.
At least five militants have been killed and three soldiers wounded in Yemen in fighting near a damaged oil pipeline east of the capital, Sana’a.
Yemen’s army has seized the al-Qaeda strongholds of Jaar and Zinjibar, more than a year after the jihadists captured most of Abyan province.
Ali Khousrof — judo fighter — has been training for the London Olympics, even though he was shot in the abdomen during Yemen’s Arab Spring uprising.
US drone attacks have killed at least 20 al-Qaeda-linked fighters including some of their leaders, say tribal sources.
Yemen’s new president has been inaugurated, saying the impoverished Arab state faced a "complex and difficult phase" ahead.
Violence has marred Yemen’s presidential election, which ended three decades of rule by the US’s key ally in the region, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Yemen has gone to the polls with the sole candidate to succeed ousted President Saleh looking for a strong mandate from voters to rebuild the country.
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/ 31 January 2012
An air raid by "unknown forces" has struck an al-Qaeda outpost in Yemen, killing about 15 people — including a long-hunted regional leader.
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/ 18 January 2012
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The Kruger National Park will get 150 additional rangers to combat poaching, following news that 11 rhino have been already been killed in SA in 2012.
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/ 15 January 2012
Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen have seized a town close to Yemen’s capital Sana’a, seizing an ancient citadel and mosque.
Yemen’s Cabinet has approved a law granting President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and anyone who has worked under him, immunity from prosecution.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down after a nine-month fierce uprising calling for his ouster and an attempted assassination.
After backing down three times from a deal to step down, Yemen’s embattled President Saleh is in Saudi Arabia to sign a deal to transfer power.
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/ 14 November 2011
France has announced that al-Qaeda released three French aid workers kidnapped in Yemen in May after negotiations with a tribal chief.
At least 19 Yemeni civilians, state troops and dissident soldiers have died in the wake of President Saleh’s latest pledge to resign.
At least 10 people have been killed in fighting as demands mount for an end to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year tenure.
At least five people died in fierce clashes in Yemen’s capital between President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s troops and rival forces.
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/ 12 October 2011
UN Security Council members are battling to come up with a way to address the growing death toll in Yemen from protests against President Saleh.
A Yemeni warplane has mistakenly bombed its own troops at a military site in the country’s volatile south, killing at least 30 soldiers.
President Barack Obama on Friday hailed the drone strike on Anwar al-Awlaki as "another significant milestone" in efforts to defeat al-Qaeda.
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/ 26 September 2011
Ali Abdullah Saleh offers early elections for a transfer of power as 18 unarmed protesters are killed by government troops.
Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has called for early elections in his first speech since returning to Yemen.
Witnesses and medics said government forces attacked the main opposition protest camp in Sana’a on Saturday and killed at least 17 protesters.
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/ 20 September 2011
Rockets hit a protest camp in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, killing at least two people on Tuesday, witnesses said.
Soldiers opposed to President Ali Abdullah Saleh exchanged heavy fire with government troops in the centre of Sanaa as 28 people were killed.
Three French aid workers kidnapped in southeastern Yemen a month ago have been located after going missing near the mud city of Shibam, officials say.
More than 60 al-Qaeda prisoners have escaped from a south Yemen prison, prompting civil groups to accuse the government of organising the jailbreak.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was recovering from an operation to remove shrapnel from his chest while a truce appeared to be holding.
Every minute Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh spends away from his country is one step closer to the end of his three-decade rule.