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Yemen allocates $200 million USD for irrigation, food security [OOSKAnews]

28 Sep 2012 – 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent YEMEN, SANAA — The Yemeni government this week announced it was allocating $200 million USD for projects to improve irrigation and food security. The funding is part of the Phasal Program for Development and Stability, adopted by the government for the period of 2012 to 2014. The […]

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Heavy rains, floods kill 24 in Yemen / 14 in Saudi Arabia [Reuters / Daily Times]

By REUTERS, Published: Jul 16, 2010 SANAA: Fierce rains and floods have killed 24 people in northwest Yemen and southwest Saudi Arabia and cut off several villages, local media and government officials said on Friday. Heavy downpours in Yemen’s Wasab Safil district forced a dam to burst, the Interior Ministry said, citing witnesses, killing nine […]

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