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Source: Yemen News Agency (SABA)
The government of Yemen has announced that the weekly days of rest (weekends) would be changed from the current Thursday/Friday to Friday/Saturday.
As per the aforementioned announcement, Saturday, February 4, 2012, will be the first Saturday off in Yemen, after which the new Friday/Saturday weekends will be the norm.
Other Muslim countries have already changed from a Thursday/Friday weekend to a "semi-universal" Friday/Saturday weekend: the UAE (31-May-2006), Bahrain (02-Aug-2006), Kuwait (04-Aug-2007), Sudan (09-Jan-2008) and Algeria (24-Jul-2009).
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Yemen 2012 bank holidays and public holidays (current year)
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Yemen 2013 bank holidays and public holidays (next year)
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bank holidays and public holidays news updates (January 2012)
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Yemen Changes Weekends