{"id":31287,"date":"2026-01-13T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31287"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:28:29","slug":"yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Yemen Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen announced a new Constitution for the \u201cState of South Arabia\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Yemen<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated at the south-western corner of the <\/span><b>Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia.<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Borders:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It shares <\/span><b>Saudi Arabia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (North) and <\/span><b>Oman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (East).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Coastline &amp; Strategic Importance:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Sea (West), Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, and Guardafui Channel (South).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yemen is strategically located <\/span><b>at the entrance of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The strait links the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea via <\/span><b>the Gulf of Aden.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sanaa<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Yemen<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It lies in the border zone between two main weather patterns: the regular northerly winds (from the Mediterranean basin) and the southwest monsoon winds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Point:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yemen&#8217;s highest point is Jabal an Nabi Shu&#8217;ayb at 3,760 m.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Desert: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rub&#8217; Al Khali Desert.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>no perennial lakes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and rivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/southern-transitional-council-yemens-separatists\/article70494526.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen is situated at the south-western corner of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. Read more about Yemen, Geopolitical Importance, Capital, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4704],"class_list":{"0":"post-31287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-yemen","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}