#Socotra island

SOCOTRA, July 31 (YPA) - The UAE has stepped up its activities aimed at completing the stripping of the Yemeni island of Socotra from its Yemeni identity. Activists shared a video clip on social media of young girls dancing to the tunes…

SOCOTRA, July. 10 (YPA) - The UAE imposed on Monday its flags on all the cities and islands of the Socotra archipelago, in eastern Yemen. Observers described the move as announcing the separation of the strategic island at the intersection…

SOCOTRA, June 12 (YPA) - The UAE has threatened to extract Yemen's Socotra island from World Heritage List. Nasser Abdel Rahman, a head of the Socotra Wildlife Society, confirmed, in a news statement on Monday, the existence of large-scale…

ADEN, June 01 (YPA) - The southern revolutionary movement (Al-Hirak Al-Janoubi) called for stopping the UAE flights that bring the Jewish tourists from the Zionist entity to the Yemeni island of Socotra. Dr. Abdullah Al-Numani, an official…

SOCOTRA, May 17 (YPA) - One of the most prominent sheikhs of the Yemeni archipelago of Socotra returned after a failed assassination attempt in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi. Sources familiar with the matter on the island said that the…

SOCOTRA, May 14 (YPA) - A new batch of Emirati surveillance and eavesdropping devices has arrived on the UAE forces-held Socotra island of Yemen. Sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday that the devices equipped with modern…

SOCOTRA, March 20 (YPA) - A number of Emirati commercial companies have looted dozens of rare trees and marine life on the occupied island of Socotra of Yemen. Environmental specialists on the island said on Monday that the so-called…

ADEN, Feb. 27 (YPA) - Saudi Arabia implemented on Monday new arrangements to reduce the influence of UAE in the archipelago of the Yemeni island of Socotra. This came in the framework of the escalation of the “Saudi-Emirati” conflict…

SOCOTRA, Feb. 21 (YPA) - The UAE forces have launched a new displacement operation against the people of Abd al-Kuri Island, 133 km away, in the occupied Yemeni province of Socotra Archipelago. Local sources said, "The UAE is carrying out…

SANAA, Feb. 02 (YPA) - In the past few days, new fears have been raised of an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe that would hit the Yemeni province of Socotra, as a result of an oil spill from a ship belonging to the merchant and…