Qat draws water and life from impoverished Yemen
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Lunchtime in Sanaa. Offices begin to close, the crowds disappear from the ancient souqs, restaurants hurry their last customers out: the qat is here.
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Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination.
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About 200 African would-be immigrants are dead or missing after two boats they were travelling in sank off the coast of Yemen on the weekend, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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SANAA, Yemen It is 4 p.m. when Sanaa's Old City shakes off its lunchtime doldrums. Greeting its revival are the cries of vendors and a cascade of car horns, rare channels for unadulterated freedom of expression in the Arab world.
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CAIRO, Dec. 21 -- Night and day, the farmers of the island in the Nile keep watch at the lapping brown edge of the river for the return of the Egyptian army. When the island's mosques call the Muslims to prayer, Christian farmers take the watch.
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BHAMIA, Bangladesh -- Global warming has a taste in this village. It is the taste of salt.
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A diplomat in Yemen says he believes 180 African migrants have drowned in recent days trying to get to Yemen.
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To his family, Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan is a passionate champion for the poor who lost two years of his life to an overzealous government.
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A local group is sparking a quiet sanitary revolution that the World Bank and UN call a model for other developing countries.
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Abdullah Saleh al-Ashtal, who served as Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations for nearly 30 years, died in New York on Thursday after a long illness, Yemen's Foreign Ministry and its U.N. Mission said Friday. He was 66.
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LISBON, Nov 27 (IPS) - The small West African island nation of Sao TomÃ©  and PrÃ­ncipe is one of the poorest countries in the world, but  there are grounds for hope that conditions there may soon improve  considerably.
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One city experiments with providing water 24 hours a day - a rarity in this country.
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In Yemen, a theological contest cools Al Qaeda hotbed.
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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH  JAKARTA, Indonesia - In a low-lying riverside district of the capital, dead chickens floated in the same filthy floodwaters that women used to bathe children and wash clothes.
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Most  afternoons in Yemen, the men gather for social occasions and political discussions. They chew the fresh leaves of a plant called khat. The leaves are a mild stimulant and the men store them in their cheeks as they talk. Though they may be armed with machine guns,  Kalashnikov rifles and crescent-shaped swords, there is never any fighting at these events. The purpose is to bond, negotiate power relationships, share information, make policy decisions and explore solutions to particularly divisive issues. These are called "khat chews."
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The sweat and donations from religious groups are bringing hope and new homes to many residents in this tiny community, still struggling two years after Hurricane Katrina left much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast in ruins.