81.   The United Nations was working on obtaining security guarantees from the Yemeni government to enable a mission to visit the city, hit by shortages of goods and services.

82.   The Yemeni government said Tuesday it was still ready to implement a ceasefire if southern forces stopped attacking northern troops loyal to President Ali Abdallah Saleh.

83.   The Yemeni government appealed Monday for urgent international aid to help victims of the war, the UN representative in Sanaa, Ouni al-Hani said.

84.   The Yemeni government is to impose censorship on newspapers, the independent English-language weekly Yemen Times said Saturday.

85.   The Yemeni government met Thursday to consider a UN Security Council resolution calling on both sides in the Yemeni conflict to immediate declare a ceasefire.

86.   The Yemeni government said an opposition leader was attacked by fellow party members in a dispute over money, denying allegations it had tried to assassinate him.

87.   The Yemeni government said Eritrean forces captured the island on Monday despite a ceasefire.

88.   The Yemeni government, seeking a rapprochement with the Saudis, is careful not to air its suspicions in public.

89.   The Yemeni government presented ambassadors from donor countries and aid officials with a grim picture of its emergency needs at a meeting Thursday.

90.   Yemeni government sources said Hussain had been dismissed by Sanaa after backing the southern uprising but this was not confirmed in Algiers.