Day: 30 May 2023

The Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA) announced the closure nominations for its board elections for the 2023/2025 session.

In a statement today, the association named twelve nominees who will run in the board elections set for Sunday.

The nominees are Muhammad Al-Saei, Rashid Al-Ghayeb, Bassam Al-Badawi, Yahya Al-Omari, Abdul Rahman Al-Midfa, Zahraa Habib, Mansour Shaker, Ehab Ahmed, Hassan Al-Sitri, Rashed Al-Hamer, Ahmed Karim, and Mohamed Bahr.

The BJA General Assembly will hold its regular meeting, to elect the board of directors on Saturday in the Alumni Club in Adliya.

Source: Bahrain News Agency

President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, met on Tuesday with the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation, Ibrahim Al-Hamli.

During the meeting, they reviewed the humanitarian situation worsening in Yemen as a result of the continued aggression and blockade and the efforts made by the Council to concentrate humanitarian work on priority needs.

The meeting touched on aspects of coordination between the Council and humanitarian organizations and the facilities provided by the Council to humanitarian action partners to implement sustainable activities and projects that contribute to alleviating human suffering in the country.

Source: Yemen News Agency

His Excellency Field Marshal Mahdi Al-Mashat, Head of the Supreme Political Council, met today, Tuesday, at the Republican Palace in the capital, Sana’a, Minister of Guidance, Hajj and Umrah Affairs Najeeb Nasser Al-Aji, and his deputy, scholar Fouad Muhammad Naji.

During the meeting, which was attended by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Guidance for the Hajj and Umrah Sector, Abdul Rahman Al-Naami, the difficulties facing the Yemeni pilgrims were discussed in light of the continued closure of the ports and the US-Saudi blockade on the Yemeni people.

As well as closing Sana’a International Airport and raising the cost of Hajj by more than three times, as well as arbitrary dealings of mercenaries with Yemeni pilgrims, renting accommodation far from the Haram and gathering them in one place, which increases their suffering and exposes them to dangers.

In the meeting, President Al-Mashat affirmed that the Saudi regime deliberately politicizes the Hajj and restricts it to a very limited number of people from one country, thus bypassing a prominent feature of the Hajj as a collective duty for Muslims from all over the world and a clear violation of God’s directives.

He pointed out the need to distance the Hajj from politicization, manipulation of the quotas of Yemeni pilgrims, and to close the electronic route for the transportation of pilgrims from the capital, Sana’a.

He indicated that most of the pilgrims depart from the areas of the Supreme Political Council’s authority, in which a high population density resides.

The President pointed out that the Yemeni pilgrims suffer from cuts, killings and theft of their property while passing through the mercenaries’ areas, as happened when the bus transporting pilgrims in Abyan province was interrupted last year, and their money and belongings were looted

Source: Yemen News Agency

President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, met on Tuesday with the National Resilience Program team.

The meeting reviewed the progress of implementing the resilience program at the level of ministries, government institutions and provinces, which contributes to enhancing their presence and closeness to the citizen, and keeping pace with the requirements of the stage at various levels.

The meeting also touched on the importance of the program’s role in strengthening the factors of national steadfastness to face the challenges of the aggression and the blockade, and the factors of stability, providing services, and implementing the state’s general directives in all fields.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The Director of the Humanitarian Affairs Branch in Hajjah province Allan Fadayel, and the coordinators of the Protection and Health Department of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Merla Soqin and Tom Ojwal, discussed today the ICRC’s interventions in the health and protection sectors.

The meeting reviewed the role of the ICRC, during the past period, in supporting the sectors of health, protection, water and food security, and alleviating part of the suffering of the displaced and affected people.

In the meeting, Fadhail stressed the need to continue supporting the dialysis center in Hajjah, and to consider it a priority for the interventions of the next stage. Being the focal center that dozens of cases come to on a daily basis from Hajjah and the neighboring provinces.

He expressed his hope that the ICRC would intervene to provide the correctional needs of the central prison in Hajjah, represented by paving the entrance and yard of the correctional facility, supporting the health unit with medical and treatment supplies, and providing shelters.

He appreciated the ICRC’s support for two field hospitals in Abs, pointing out the need to expand the circle of support.He considered that the two hospitals are the first line of protection through which health care is provided to the displaced , the sick, and the need to contribute to alleviating the suffering of those affected by the rains and torrential rains in the displacement sites.

In turn, Ojwal and Soqin indicated that the aim of the visit was to evaluate interventions in the protection and health sectors, identify difficulties and recommendations, and monitor the need to work to meet it according to the available resources.

Source: Yemen News Agency