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The authorities have freed 82 prisoners detained during anti-government protests in the south in a step towards implementing an accord with the opposition. “Eighty-two prisoners were freed in Al-Mukalla on the orders of President Ali Abdullah Saleh after the deal was signed with the opposition,” a local official told AFP on 21 July.

UAE joint defence committee with US; Mayall tour of UAE and Yemen; Yemeni coastguard base on Miyoun Island

President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to Sanaa after visits to Egypt and Russia. Following talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Saleh travelled to Moscow to meet senior Russian officials and attend an international exhibition on technology and equipment. Saleh is thought to have discussed Yemen’s bilateral debt

Ursula Brennan’s Riyadh visit, Military delegation in Yemen, Border controls

Ten people have been killed in clashes between northern Houthi rebels and government-allied tribesmen

According to GSN’s contacts in southern Yemen, the federal military is rapidly reinforcing the south. The regime in Sanaa appears to have deftly switched its more capable units from the Saada rebellion from 18 May onwards, bringing an estimated 14 battalions to the south in time for the unification anniversary on 22 May.

The heavy-handedness of the government’s security operations has forced retired southern soldiers into common cause with the Southern Movement, piling pressure on a creaking regime

Ali Abdullah Saleh’s visits to Cairo and Amman have stoked speculation that he is planning a new initiative to reconcile southern leaders before Yemen’s divisions become irreversible

Yemen’s efforts to entice IOCs to boost its faltering oil industry are hampered by a deteriorating security situation

Fear of the consequences of a fragmented opposition preoccupies the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) and President Ali Abdullah Saleh, with the possible fragmentation of the secessionist Southern Movement opening the way for long-held thoughts about a new political dispensation in the Hadramawt. GSN’s soundings in Yemen

In an effort to counter Yemen’s reputation as the world’s most heavily armed country on a per capita basis, the Ministry of Interior on 15 April said the authorities had confiscated more than 600,000 weapons since August 2008

Sheikh Hassan Al-Saffar, de facto leader of Saudi Arabia’s Shias, has in recent months made a special effort to position himself as a patriotic national loyalist, despite the Kingdom’s recent military intervention against Zaidi Shia Al-Houthi rebels in northern Yemen.

The World Bank has approved a $5m grant to expand access to water for poor households in peri-urban areas.

Post-election challenge to oil contracts unlikely, Second LNG train starts production,

The government on 27 February declared a state of emergency in the southern province of Al-Dhalee,