Yemeni PM: New Govt Will Introduce Fresh Reforms

Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)
Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)
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Yemeni PM: New Govt Will Introduce Fresh Reforms

Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)
Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)

Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik revealed on Saturday that the next government will usher in a host of economic reforms that will be implemented in cooperation with the country’s partners.

Abdulmalik added that corruption in state institutions will be dealt with strictly.

He noted that the coming period will be difficult as he revealed that a mini-technocrat government will be announced this week.

The challenges will be huge but it is not impossible for the new government to overcome, he said during a meeting with French ambassador to Yemen, Jean-Marie Safa.

The mission to save the national economy, put an end to the depreciation of the national currency, complete the restoration of the state and build its institutions and alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people across the country without exceptions will be the top priority, Abdulmalik said.

The new government has a package of reforms which it will carry out with support from partners and friends of Yemen in the fields of development, economy and finance as well as measures to fight corruption and enhance accountability, he stressed.

The PM accused the Iran-backed Houthi militias of deepening the humanitarian crisis through refusing all proposed solutions to resolve economic crises and the military escalation.

Talks with the French diplomat tackled recent developments in Yemen and France’s continued support of state institutions and the Yemeni people. The officials also discussed priorities for the upcoming period and areas of cooperation between Yemen and France.

Abdulmalik touched on the advanced steps that have been achieved in implementing the Riyadh Agreement on the military, security and political levels, as well as the consensus between the political stakeholders to announce a Yemeni cabinet in the coming days.

Talks also went over the repeated Houthi targeted attacks on civilians in clear and flagrant rejection of the political solution.



Israel Presses Jenin Raid

Israeli army vehicles block a road on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
Israeli army vehicles block a road on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
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Israel Presses Jenin Raid

Israeli army vehicles block a road on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
Israeli army vehicles block a road on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH

A Palestinian official reported shooting and explosions in the flashpoint West Bank town of Jenin on Wednesday as Israeli forces pressed a raid that the military described as a "counterterrorism" operation.

"The situation is very difficult," Kamal Abu al-Rub, the governor of Jenin, told AFP.

"The occupation army has bulldozed all the roads leading to the Jenin camp, and leading to the Jenin Governmental Hospital... There is shooting and explosions," he added.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces launched an operation in Jenin which Palestinian officials said killed 10 people, just days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in the Gaza Strip.

According to Abu al-Rub, Israeli forces detained around 20 people from villages near Jenin, a bastion of Palestinian militancy.

The Israeli military said it had launched a "counterterrorism operation" in the area, and had "hit over 10 terrorists.”

"Additionally, aerial strikes on terror infrastructure sites were conducted and numerous explosives planted on the routes by the terrorists were dismantled," it said in a statement on Wednesday.

"The Israeli forces are continuing the operation."

Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed to continue the assault.

"It is a decisive operation aimed at eliminating terrorists in the camp," Katz said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that the military would not allow a "terror front" to be established there.

On Tuesday, the Israeli military and the Shin Bet security agency announced that, in coordination with the Border Police, they had launched an operation named "Iron Wall" in the area.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the raid aimed to "eradicate terrorism" in Jenin.

He linked the operation to a broader strategy of countering Iran "wherever it sends its arms — in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen," and the West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says more than 800 people have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since October 2023.