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Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom? - BBC News - 0 views

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Yemen Houthi rebellion power struggle

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  • mjumaia on 21 Apr 15
     
    Yemen has war between several different groups, and this article explains more in details.
  • cguybar on 21 Jan 16
     
    The main fight is between the beleaguered President and rebels known as Houthis. The threat of attacks in Yemen posses a threat on the West due to its instability. 
  • jherna2a on 27 Jan 16
     
    Article explains the conflict in Yemen between the Houthis and the state. The Houthis are a rebel group who adhere to Zaidism.
jherna2a

Why is Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen? - CNN.com - 0 views

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Yemen Saudi Arabia military intervention Houthi Rebellion

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  • jherna2a on 03 Feb 16
     
    Saudia Arabia has launched military attacks on Yemen in order to "restore the Yemeni government" after the Houthi Rebellion. The main reasons for this is that Saudi Arabia sees the "Houthis as nothing more than a proxy Iranian force."
mkulach

Exclusive: EgyptAir mechanic suspected in Russian plane crash - 0 views

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Egypt tourism terrorism investigation

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  • mkulach on 31 Jan 16
     
    Investigations are still going on about the airplane that crashed leaving Egypt in October. Egypt is still saying it was not terrorism but it is known that a worker might have a link to a cousin who joined the Islamic State. This is an issue because tourism is one of Egypt's main economic contributors, but since the attack no foreigners from Europe or Russia have been able to travel there.
aacosta8

Online Activism to Real-World Activism: Social Media's Role in the Egyptian Revolution ... - 0 views

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Revolt Egypt Internet Usage Cyber Activism

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      sheldonmer on 16 Nov 14
       
      This article is statistically strong with lots of factoids about the Egyptian Revolution and more specifically its ties to social media. It says that social media has three downfalls in the Egyptians revolution. These 3 things being, "enabling passive "activism," romanticizing the revolution, and failing to provide structure for a cohesive plan with leaders". This article discusses the idea of anonymous activism and what role it actually plays for uprisings. They also talk about how "perverting activism" was popular when starting the revolution. This was when people would post shocking images and videos of the carnage from protests being shut down by police. This would get everyone's attention, but would not carry the revolution itself. 
  • aacosta8 on 02 Feb 16
     
    There was a huge increase in number of internet usage in Egypt. The internet was a main pathway to join the revolution, but it also causes passive activism and most won't leave their houses to revolt.
eyadalhasan

Hackers Are Using Fake Terror Alert Emails to Spread Malware - 0 views

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Terrorism Hackers Dubai

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  • eyadalhasan on 01 Mar 16
     
    With terrorism dominating the news, hackers are trying to exploit people's fears by posing as Dubai law enforcement and spreading malware. Hacker attacks are a main issue and used to spread malware and terrorist messages.
mcooka

News & Broadcast - Education: Improving access and quality of education in Yemen - 0 views

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yemen education improving access quality girls

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  • For almost three decades, the International Development Association (IDA) has actively helped increase access to, and the quality of, educational services in Yemen. The main achievements are the expansion of the education system at all levels, which helped halve the illiteracy rate to 45 percent from 90 percent
  • This is particularly challenging given the country’s significant population growth and deep poverty
  • Fewer girls than boys enrol in school (particularly in rural areas), many tend to be over-age and most drop out before completing basic education.
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  • lack of female teachers is one of the factors resulting in low enrolment and retention of girls in schools, particularly in higher grades when parents tend to object to male teachers
  • The sector also suffers from a lack of efficiency and effectiveness in using limited financial resources and weak management capacity.
  • DA has provided assistance for development of all education system sub-sector
  • both building on the success of the Basic Education Expansion Project of 2001-2007
  • The Secondary Education Development and Girls Access Project provides a platform to address broader sector governance and management issues by bringing together the Ministries of Planning, Finance, Civil Service and Insurance and Local Officials to jointly sign a Protocol of Participation in this Project.
  • men is also part of the Education For All Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI). FTI focuses on increasing access of children to primary education in line with the MDG target of achieving universal primary education, and its interventions target the most remote areas in the country where no other IDA project, government intervention or donor project has gone before
  • Increase in enrolment in primary education to 87 percent in 2008-09 from 68 percent in 1998-99.Gains in girls’ enrolment were even higher with an increase to 78% in 2008-09 from 49% in 1998-99, reducing by half the gap with male enrolment
  • The Education sector in Yemen is one of oldest and largest sectors of IDA investment in Yemen.
  • otal Bank financing for the five projects amounts to US$133 million, comprising Basic Education Development Project (US$68.66 million), Secondary Education Development and Girls Access project (US$20 million), Fast Track Initiative – Phase III (US$20 million), Second Vocational Training Project (US$ 15 million), and Second Higher Education Project (US$13 million).
  • he basic education sector in Yemen is characterized by a high degree of donor harmonization. Education receives a large share of the comparatively small amount of Official Development Assistance per capita recipient (just US$13 in 2006).
  • The Yemen Country Status Report set the stage for the development of a national vision for education. The national vision is to be developed in coordination with line ministries and aims to develop the foundations for a national education system that is linked to the labor market
  • mcooka on 02 Mar 16
     
    This article is about the improvement of education in Yemen. Yemen is a very poor country with a large population growth. These programs have created platforms and finances to attract teachers, advocates for girls groups, advocates for education, and have pushed the literacy rate up towards 90%
blantonjack

Army's Delta Force begins to target ISIS in Iraq - 0 views

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ISIS U.S.A. Iraq

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  • blantonjack on 02 Mar 16
     
    The U.S. Army's elite Delta Force operations to target, capture or kill top ISIS operatives have begun in Iraq, after several weeks of covert preparation. The official said the group has spent the last several weeks preparing, including setting up safe houses, establishing informant networks and coordinating operations with Iraqi and Peshmerga units. It's the same strategy that Special Operations forces have used in previous deployments to combat zones. This is a strong move shown by the United States that says ISIS is the main priority in the Syrian War. Many officers of high rank have said that this has taken weeks of planning and scouting out enemy positions so that it would be swift missions that would demand very accurate precision.
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