Yemen

The media cooperation with Yemen aims to support Yemeni partners in developing tangible development interventions to enhance freedom of expression, access to information and a professional and independent media. Five areas of focus include: Freedom of media and access to information; support to the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate; reforming the curriculum of journalist educations; mid-career training of media professionals and finally professional upgrading of regional radio stations.

Rain of bullets closes down newspaper in Yemen

Front door of Al Ayyam newspaper in Aden, which is now closed. Photo: IMS

23.02.2010
For years, tension has been growing between the Yemeni government and one of Yemen’s oldest independent newspapers, Al Ayyam based in Aden in southern Yemen. Al Ayyam insisted on trying to uncover cases of alleged rampant corruption and mismanagement of state affairs, but in January security forces opened fire on the newspaper’s office and hundreds of demonstrators in January to silence the voice of dissent

Yemen Times Editor-in-Chief, Nadia al-Sakkaf checking the paper on its way to printing. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS

26.01.2010
Recent events in Yemen in connection with the latest surge in the “global war on terror” are seriously affecting media in the country. “Yemen government is using support of internationals to violate people’s rights”, an international organisation claims. Interview with Yemen Times Editor-in-Chief Nadia al-Sakkaf

Yemeni media gathered at the Media Forum in Sanaa, June 2009. Photo: IMS

16.06.2009
The recent government decision to close 8 newspapers and other challenges facing media in Yemen featured highly on the agenda when more than 50 Yemeni media representatives met in a Media Forum organised jointly by the Yemen Journalist syndicate and IMS

YJS Fourth General Congress, held in Sanaa in March 2009. Photo: YJS/IMS

23.03.2009
Yemeni Journalist Syndicate elects new chairman and board after one year delay of the Fourth General Congress of YJS

The workshop on gender issues for members of the Yemen Journalists Syndicate provided food for thought to the participants. Photo: Solveig Schmidt/IMS

03.11.2008
A group of Yemeni journalists have formed a lobby group to put gender issues on the agenda at the national congress of the Yemen Syndicate of Journalists set for December 2008

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Rain of bullets closes down newspaper in Yemen

'War on terror' challenges media in Yemen

Closure of newspapers stir debate in Yemen

Successful journalists' congress in Yemen

Yemeni journalists raise gender issues