Day: June 15, 2023

The traffic police, with the participation of the Traffic Control Unit, and the Sana’a Traffic Department, seized 4,505 unmarked and unnumbered violating cars during the period from Shawwal 18 to Dhu al-Qi’dah 24.

The traffic police stated the violating cars were seized during the field campaign when the Police were carrying out in the Capital Sana’a, and included cars without customs, removing license plates, customs without numbers, driving opposite the roads, overturning the bottles of cars and taxi buses, and other traffic violations.

The Police stated in a statement that more than 8, 584 traffic violations were seized, including lifting dilapidated and scrap cars, random parking, and assaults on sidewalks, among others.

The statement pointed out that more than two 2, 685 pledges were issued to violators to abide by traffic etiquette and rules in order to ensure the safety of all and to reduce congestion and traffic accidents.

It confirmed the continuation of its field campaigns to seize unmarked and unnumbered cars that violate traffic rules and restore traffic discipline, based on the general directives issued by the leadership of the Ministry of Interior.

The statement called on all violators to quickly correct their situation and go voluntarily to the demarcation and numbering centers so that their cars would not be subject to seizure, stressing that violators will not be released from seizure until after they pay all the traffic violations registered on them and pay the fines resulting from removing the plates.

It called on everyone to cooperate and adhere to traffic rules to enhance traffic safety.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The Ministry of Fisheries condemned on Thursday the attack on a number of Yemeni fishermen by Eritrean forces during a fishing trip in Yemeni territorial waters.

In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (SABA), the Ministry stated that fisherman Malik Mohammed Abdullah Geyrd of the Khokha district of Hodeida had suffered a gunshot wound that resulted in the loss of his left eye, while his six companions were forcibly detained in Eritrean prisons.

This attack and Eritrean maritime piracy crimes and its flagrant attacks on Yemeni fishermen constitute a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian law. To call upon the international community and human rights organizations to act to halt these ongoing crimes against Yemeni fishermen.

It commended Yemeni fishermen ‘ pride in their profession and their reliance on them to provide food for their families under aggression and blockade.. called on the Eritrean side to cease its violations of fishermen’s rights and respect for maritime interests in international waters.

The Ministry of Fisheries called on the international community to take a clear and explicit position to hold the Eritrean authorities accountable for their acts of aggression against fishermen in territorial waters. Confirmed that Yemen would vigorously defend its people and protect its territorial waters.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The President of the Presidential Council, “Muhammad Al-Manfi” and the deputy in the Council, “Musa Al-Koni”, met today, Thursday, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, “Al-Siddiq Al-Kabeer”.

Al-Kabeer briefed the Council on his meetings in Washington with officials of the International Monetary Fund, and the Fund’s reports on the Central Bank’s performance in managing the country’s financial affairs, according to what the Presidential Council published on its official Facebook page.

During the meeting, public spending was followed up and the importance of emphasizing the principle of transparency and disclosure of government expenditures, and the issuance of reports in this regard.

Source: Libyan News Agency

The representative of the Presidential Council, “Musa al-Koni”, met today, Thursday, in the council’s office in Tripoli, a delegation of southern women.

The Presidential Council stated that the members of the delegation stressed the need to support women in the south in order for them to assume their social status within their homeland, and made it clear that they have the ability to assume leadership positions to represent Libya at home and abroad.

During the meeting, they lauded the national reconciliation project, which is being led by the Presidential Council, as having reached advanced stages, and they demanded that women have a role in it to contribute to its success.

In turn, the deputy praised the active role of southern women in many fields, stressing his confidence in the ability of southern women to make a shift that contributes to its reconstruction and development by unifying their efforts, for their ability to lead in all fields, and he said that their enduring the hardships of traveling to claim their rights clearly confirms their ability to provide the best, and that they are We need to push them forward to achieve their ambitions.

Al-Koni suggested that they coordinate to hold a comprehensive forum for the women and youth of the south to review their strategies aimed at supporting the south and come up with recommendations that serve women and enable them to prove their ability to lead in all fields.

In her turn, the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs, “Houriya Al-Turman” praised women in the south for their desire to raise their competence in many fields, stressing that the ministry will continue to support women in the regions of Libya so that they can achieve their aspirations to serve their country.

The meeting was attended by the Director of the Office of the Presidential Council in the southern region, “Ben Issa Al-Siddiq”, a member of the Supreme Council of the State, “Fatima Talweeh”, and the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs in the Government of National Unity, “Houriya Al-Turman”.

Source: Libyan News Agency