The ''Yemen Post'' was a

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Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

published from 2007 and now defunct. It was also Yemen's first hourly updated online news service with reporters spread throughout the country. The ''Yemen Post'' hard copy version was distributed mostly in Yemen and was first launched in a newspaper format on 2 November 2007. The newspaper is distributed to over 2000 government institutions, embassies, organizations, businesses throughout Yemen. Along with the foreign distribution to neighboring countries, the ''Yemen Post'' is also distributed to some communities within

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and

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. The format of the newspaper was changed to a full-colored, top of the art tabloid format on 16 February 2009. The paper was founded by the current publisher and

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Hakim Almasmari Hakim Almasmari is a Yemeni American publisher and editor in chief of ''Yemen Post'' newspaper. He played leading roles in brokering tens of political mediation's in Yemen including the 2009 Saudi war with Houthis. He is a university lecturer in t ...

. The Yemen Post still functions but reports it has been blocked in Yemen. It relocated to

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and its account was last active in 2019.

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* Publications established in 2007 2007 establishments in Yemen English-language newspapers published in Arab countries {{Asia-newspaper-stub Defunct newspapers published in Yemen

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