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Saboteurs blow up Yemen oil pipeline

Saboteurs blew up a section of Yemen's main oil pipeline on Friday, partly disrupting output, the defence ministry and a local official said. The attack struck in the Sarwaj district of Marib province, east of the capital, the ministry said in a statement. A local official told AFP that engineers had been sent to the area to try to restore the flow of oil on the 320-kilometre (200-mile) pipeline from the Safer field to the Red Sea port of Hodeida. The pipeline has been hit repeatedly by saboteurs, with two attacks last month alone.

Ousted Yemen president's son leaves army, named envoy

Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi on Wednesday named the eldest son of ousted dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh as the country's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, state television reported. With the decision, Ahmed Abdullah Saleh is to leave the army and a rival of his, General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, becomes adviser to the president for military and security affairs, said the television. In December, Hadi dramatically restructured the military to curb the influence of those linked to the toppled strongman.

Yemen president removes key officer in army shakeup - TV

By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president removed the commander of the elite Republican Guard, a powerful political foe, from the military on Wednesday, state television reported, in an apparent move to unify the divided armed forces under his own control. The television read out orders by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointing Brigadier General Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is the son of Hadi's predecessor, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.

Ex-Yemeni president in Saudi for treatment

Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been accused of meddling in his country's fragile political transition, was in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for treatment, a Yemeni diplomat said. Saleh arrived for medical tests and treatment in the Saudi capital on Monday, his party, General People's Congress (GPC), said. He spent time recovering in a Riyadh hospital in June 2011 after an attack on his compound left him seriously wounded.

South Yemen leaders push for participation in national talks

South Yemen leaders vowed at a meeting in Dubai to continue talks on participating in a national dialogue this month to end the country's political crisis, as a separatist faction withdrew from the meeting. "We have decided to continue the meetings to make a decision on our participation" in the UN-brokered talks which will begin on March 18, said Salem Saleh Mohammed on Sunday. He did not say where the meetings would be held. Southern leaders met in Dubai late on Saturday in a gathering attended by UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar.

UN envoy to meet south Yemen leaders before dialogue

UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar will meet leaders from the Southern Movement, a separatist group, ahead of a national dialogue that some of them aim to boycott, an aide said said in Dubai on Friday. "Mr Benomar meets Southern Movement leaders in Dubai on Saturday as part of consultations with all Yemeni parties" before a national dialogue is to begin on March 18, Abderrahim Saber said. Saber said various factions of the movement, including that of secessionist Ali Salem al-Baid, have "confirmed their presence for the meeting."

Saleh-era officials agree to appear at Yemen bombing trial

A Yemeni court lifted a freeze on the assets of two former security chiefs on Tuesday after they finally agreed to appear in court over a deadly 2012 suicide bombing in Sanaa, the judge told AFP. It was not immediately clear whether the two men, both appointees of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, would face charges over the bombing, which rocked the capital shortly after the veteran strongman was forced from power, or would merely be required to testify. "We have cancelled the asset freeze after the two men ended their defiance of the court," judge Hilal Mahfal told AFP.

Yemen ex-leader fingers Iran over separatism

Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh affirmed his support on Wednesday for Yemen's unity in the face of calls by southerners for secession, which he said are backed by Iran. "No to secession... Our people in the south are with unity," Saleh said in a rare public appearance in Sanaa's Sabiin Square before thousands of supporters.

Yemen military aircraft crashes in Sanaa, kills 9

A Yemeni military aircraft ploughed into a building in a residential neighbourhood of Sanaa on Tuesday, killing the pilot and at least nine civilians, medics and witnesses said. Medics said the toll, which included two children and three women and left another 22 injured, was expected to rise Several hours after the crash rescue teams were still sifting through the rubble for survivors, the AFP correspondent said.

URGENT ¥¥¥ 7 die as Yemen military aircraft crashes in Sanaa: medics

A Yemeni military aircraft ploughed into a building in a residential neighbourhood of Sanaa on Tuesday killing at least seven people, mostly civilians, the emergency services said. The pilot and six civilians were killed in the crash which occurred near Change Square, an epicentre of the revolt that ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh. mou/tm/jds/bpz
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