Day: 24 May 2023

The Iraqi National Security Service carried out a wide campaign to adopt the dinar instead of the dollar in commercial dealings in Kirkuk Governorate.

The detachments carried out an educational and awareness campaign for most of the commercial markets in Kirkuk Governorate, the aim of which is to adopt the Iraqi dinar, which enhances the citizen’s confidence in the Iraqi currency.

A security source confirmed that the campaign will be periodic and continuous, and in the coming days it will participate with the relevant parties from the Kirkuk Chamber of Commerce and the Financial Supervision Department, as they are mainly concerned in this regard.

He explained that the Iraqi National Security Service will work in partnership with the competent authorities to achieve a national and strict will to support the local currency, raise the value of the Iraqi dinar, and achieve its stability in the market and in other areas by restricting dealing with foreign currency according to legal channels and procedures to serve the public interest.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

The Border Guard Forces Command announced today, Wednesday, the arrest of a suspect and seized in his possession 20,000 bank cards without official approvals in Kirkuk.

The command stated in a statement, that “the detachments of the Customs Police Directorate, the sixth region, in cooperation with the customs investigation staff in Kirkuk Governorate, managed to arrest an accused person and seized in his possession 20,000 bank cards hidden inside a car that violates the controls and is not subject to official approvals.”

It added, “A duly arrest report was organized and the necessary legal measures were taken against him.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Minister of Youth and Sports Mohammed Hussein Al-Mu’ayadi inaugurated on Wednesday the distribution of scouting clothing to students of summer courses in Sa’ada.

During the inauguration of the Martyr Leader Closed School in Sa’ada in the presence of the undersecretaries of the Ministry of Guidance for the preservation of the Holy Koran Mohammed Ali Manea and the province of Sa’ada for education affairs Yahya al-Homran, the Minister commended the efforts of the subcommittee for summer courses and summer school workers to make their activities and programmes successful for this year.

The Ministry was working to provide for students’ needs in all summer schools, which heralded qualitative outcomes in various creative, cultural and scouting fields.

He noted that field visits and inspection of summer courses in the past two weeks highlighted the great interaction and quality creative giving of students in this summer course.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The capital Sana’a witnessed on Wednesday morning in Bab al-Yemen Square a major mass march to commemorate the anniversary of al-Sarkah in the face of the arrogant.

The crowds chanted the slogan of freedom, pride, and disavowal of the nation’s enemies, confronting the forces of evil and global arrogance, and rejecting the US and Zionist hegemony and tutelage in Yemen and the region.

They emphasized that al-Sarkha launched by the martyr, Commander Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, revived the spirit of jihad, pride, and courage in the nation, and became a symbol of freedom and a slogan for the free, as a weapon and position that terrorizes the countries of tyranny and arrogance.

They raised slogans emphasizing adherence to the Qur’anic project and following the path of the martyr leader in confronting the plots and plans of the enemies of the Arab and Islamic nation and their agents, and rejecting tutelage and hegemony.

The crowds pointed out that every free man must shout the slogan to embody his position rejecting the US and Zionist policies that seek to dominate people, plunder their wealth and violate their sovereignty, especially the Arab and Islamic countries.

They affirmed the continued steadfastness of the Yemeni people, the consolidation of the Qur’anic culture and faith identity, and the promotion of awareness of the US and Zionist colonial projects, as well as the boycott of the US and Zionist goods.

The crowds explained the importance of commemorating al-Sarkha in the face of tyrants and the arrogant, and thwarting their criminal plans targeting Yemen, land and people, and strengthening alignment and efforts to defend the country, its freedom and independence until victory is achieved.

Advisor of the Supreme Political Council Mohammed Meftah confirmed that the martyr leader raised a al-Sarkha in the face of the arrogant powers at a time when the largest countries and strongest regimes submitted to the US hegemony, which sought to blackmail the world under the name of terrorism and fabricated criminal incidents and used them for blackmail.

Meftah pointed out that between the beginning of al-Sarkha in the face of the arrogant and the stage in which we live today, great transformations took place at all levels in favor of the Qur’anic project, indicating that at the national level those who chanted al-Sarkha were persecuted while they were a small group and in limited places and with determination, persistence, trust in God, certainty of victory and readiness for sacrifice. Today al-Sarkha is going around the world.

Meftah explained that the Yemeni people carry the banner of confronting American tyranny, ahead of all peoples and a spearhead in this confrontation, and they possess strength, ability, awareness and determination, which makes them live in a real state of victory and in the face of an unprecedented historical victory.

The advisor pointed out that the US administration was involved in pushing its tools in the region to directly attack Yemen, and formed an aggressive and criminal alliance that waged a comprehensive war of extermination over the past nine years, and inflicted a military, moral and political defeat on its hegemony and all its tools.

He mentioned that the system of employment, dependency and dependence – the Saudi regime – executes citizens in the eastern region of the Arabian Peninsula on charges that it cannot show, including raising al-Sarkha and soon the client Saudi regime affiliated with the American administration and global Zionism will find itself besieged by this great al-Sarkha.

Meftah stressed that al-Sarkha is no longer the monopoly of one current, but rather has become a slogan for all free people in the face of American tyranny, pointing out that al-Sarkha is an introduction to culture, awareness and mobilization to boycott the uS and Zionist goods, and to confront the current of global decadence and corruption.

Source: Yemen News Agency

A workshop was held in the capital Sana’a to present the results of the UNICEF team’s visit from the main office in New York and Geneva to Yemen, organized by the Ministry of Water and Environment in partnership with UNICEF.

The workshop reviewed the results of the team’s visit to Yemen, which focused on reviewing the humanitarian action plan in Yemen, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations to move forward in improving water and sanitation services.

Deputy Minister of Water and Environment Haneen al-Duraib renewed his welcome to the UNICEF team from the main office in New York on his visit to Yemen as well as partners from various organizations, appreciating UNICEF’s role and contribution to alleviating the suffering of children, women and the elderly in Yemen.

Al-Duraib considered the holding of the workshop the culmination of the outputs of the UNICEF team’s visit from the main office, expressing the hope that this visit would be crowned with success and convey the concerns of the Yemeni people, the Ministry of Water and Environment and its affiliates to where they should be from the concerned authorities.

He explained that many issues were discussed with the UNICEF team, focusing on the suffering of the community as a result of the interruption of diesel, the deterioration of service in water delivery, and the suspension of some institutions as a result of their inability to purchase diesel due to its high prices, the weak ability of the citizen to pay the water bill, and the futility of raising the tariff.

Al-Duraib stressed that the continuation of the situation as it is, will lead to an environmental disaster, stressing the need to expedite the implementation of what has been planned for solar energy and start experimenting with wind energy in rural and urban areas, which calls for speedy the implementation procedures.

He pointed out that the sewage situation was discussed at the level of local institutions, as well as the level of severity of treatment in Bani al-Harith in the capital Sana’a and the seriousness of its continuation as it is, referring to the study of the problem of ground and surface water pollution in some secondary cities as a result of sewage. This calls for intervention to address it, as it is among the list of priorities of the Ministry of Water and Environment.

He touched on the deterioration of water basins in the Republic, which were studied with the UNICEF team, explaining that the depths of water basins in the capital Sana’a and Bayda provinces ranged from 850 meters to 1,000 meters, and the recharge rate is a small number of what is used of water, which requires rapid intervention to make caravans, barriers and tanks.

The Deputy Minister urged the UNICEF team to redouble efforts and keep pace with the need to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people, hoping that the workshop would yield meaningful outputs that serve the public interest, appreciating the efforts of the workshop preparation team from the Ministry of Water and UNICEF.

It touched on the solutions and treatments that the team came up with during its visit, and set points of agreement with those concerned in implementing projects to provide water, reach the needy, and make the necessary response in Yemen.

For his part, the Deputy Coordinator of the WASH Cluster at the head office in Geneva explained that UNICEF’s role is based on monitoring and supporting efforts to provide water and sanitation services in 30 countries, including Yemen.

Source: Yemen News Agency