Yemen constitution committee formed

President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has announced a 17-member committee to draft Yemen’s new constitution, in presidential decree No 27 for 2014, dated 8 March. At the committee’s first meeting on 16 March, Ismail Ahmed Al-Wazir, a former member of the Supreme Court, was elected its head, with Najeeb Shameeri and Nihal Al-Awlaqi, a member of the Socialist party, as deputies, and Abdul Malik Ismail as rapporteur. The committee will work simultaneously to the committee drafting the new federal system of six regions, following the conclusion of the ordinary sessions of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC).