Kais is a very charismatic Yemeni who became slightly famous from a documentary called The Reluctant Revolutionary, which I have questioned strongly here, and I met him in Sanaa. Almost as quick as I arrived I got an appeal from him to meet throug…

“Let us kidnap you. Our government, or yours, will pay the ransom. You take half, we take half. You will get a nice [...]

“Two Yemeni friends of mine travelled back to Sanaa from Al Hudaydah the other day. One of them was really ill. He [...]

I am sitting in a tower house in the Old Sanaa writing this report.  So I have made it in to Yemen [...]

One thing I became acutely aware of during my last Yemen visit, was the really odd workings done by the global media. Most of what comes out of Yemen, still today, is just so incredibly over dramatised and in many cases, just untrue. And, unfortun…