Yemen

Partners situated in Yemen

None.

Yemen in a nutshell

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen)

Yemen (Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya al-Yamaniyya) is a country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east.

Yemen's size is just under 530,000 km2, and its territory includes over 200 islands, the largest of which is Socotra, about 415 kilometres (259 miles) to the south of Yemen, off the coast of Somalia.

Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people.

Its capital is Sana'a.

Between 2000 and 2006, 17.5% of the population lived on less than US$ 1.25 per day.

In 2006 Yemen began an economic reform programme designed to bolster non-oil sectors of the economy and foreign investment. As a result of the program, international donors pledged about $5 billion for development projects. In addition, Yemen has made some progress on reforms over the last year that will likely encourage foreign investment. Oil revenues increased in 2007.

Yemen is divided into twenty governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality. The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts (muderiah), which are subdivided into 2,210 sub-districts, and then into 38,284 villages (as of 2001)

Yemen is the only republic on the Arabian Peninsula, and one of seven in the Arab World.

Yemen has one of the world's highest birth rates, similar to the rate in Somalia to the south - roughly twice as high as that of Saudi Arabia and nearly three times as high as those in the more modernized Gulf Arab states.

Yemenis are mainly of Arab origin.

When the former states of north and south Yemen were established, most resident minority groups departed.[23]

Arabic is the official language, although English is increasingly understood by citizens in major cities. In the Mahra area (the extreme east) and the island of Soqotra, several ancient south-Arabic Semitic languages are spoken.

Islam is the religion of almost all of the population in Yemen, with Sunni and Shia in roughly equal proportions.

Higher education

Universities in Yemen

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Virtual Campuses in HE

Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives

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Interesting Programmes

No Programmes as such.

Re.ViCa Case-study

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Lessons learnt

Yemen is still at too early a stage of development for ICT and e-elearning to be widespread.

References

Wikipedia

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen

Others

• NPT COUNTRY INFORMATION - YEMEN, NUFFIC, http://www.nuffic.nl/pdf/cb/npt/yemen-npt-country-information.pdf
• Yemen ICT4D Sectoral Policy - Education, 2005, http://www.comminit.com/en/node/148411

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