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Wadi Dawan وَادِي دَوْعَن
Town
Wadi Dawan
Nickname: Wadi of Honey
Wadi DawanLocation in Yemen
Coordinates: 15°15′51″N 48°20′27″E / 15.26417°N 48.34083°E / 15.26417; 48.34083
Country	Yemen
Governorate	Hadhramaut
District	Daw'an District
Area
• Total	3,546 km (1,369 sq mi)
Elevation	1,358 m (4,455 ft)
Population
• Total	50,992
Time zone	UTC+03:00 (Yemen Standard Time)
Website	https://www.had-wadidoan.info/

Wadi Dawan (Arabic: وَادِي دَوْعَن, romanized: Wādī Daw‘an) is a desert valley in central Yemen. Located in Hadhramaut Governorate, it is noted for its mud brick buildings and honey production.

Modern history

On January 18, 2008, an ambush attack on Belgian tourists traveling in a convoy through the valley took place. A convoy of four jeeps carrying 15 tourists to Shibam were ambushed by gunmen in a hidden pickup truck. Two Belgian women, Claudine Van Caillie, of Bruges, 63, and Katrine Glorie, from East Flanders, 54, as well as two Yemenis, a driver and a guide, were killed; another man was also heavily wounded, several others suffered minor wounds. The tourists were repatriated to Belgium on January 19, except the for injured man, who remained in Sana'a.

In the wake of the attack, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel De Gucht originally rejected that Al-Qaeda might be responsible, explaining that although the possibility could be avoided, internecine disputes and latent Islamism were also to be taken into account. A number of arrests were made on January 21.

Gallery

See also

• Hadhramaut Mountains
• List of wadis of Yemen

References

1. "BBC NEWS - Al-Qaeda attack Belgian Tourists". Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
2. ^ (in French) Deux Belges tuées au Yémen, Le Soir, January 18, 2008.
3. (in French) Yémen: les touristes belges rapatriés, Le Soir, January 19, 2008.
4. (in French) Plusieurs suspects arrêtés au Yémen, Le Soir, January 21, 2008.

External links

• Yemen Sidr Royal Honey: Wadi Do'an
• The Mud Brick Villages of Wadi Hadramaut and Wadi Dawan
• Wadi Dawan | Yemen | Asia
• YEMEN: WADI DOWAN IN HADRAMOUT (YouTube)
• HADRAMAOUT (Yemen) Wadi Do'An

v t e Hadhramaut Governorate
Capital: Mukalla
Districts	Ad Dis District Adh Dhlia'ah District Al Abr District Mukalla Rural District Mukalla City District Al Qaf District Al Qatn District Amd District Ar Raydah Wa Qusayar District As Sawm District Ash Shihr District Bur Brom Mayfa District Daw'an District Ghayl Ba Wazir District Ghayl Bin Yamin District Hagr As Sai'ar District Hajr District Huraidhah District Hawrah District Rakhyah District Rumah District Sah District Seiyun District Shibam District Tarim District Thamud District Yabuth District Zamakh wa Manwakh District
Former Districts (since 2013-12 Socotra)	Hidaybu District Qulensya wa Abd al Kuri District

v t e Yemeni cities and towns by population
1,000,000 and more	Aden Sanaa
100,000-999,999	Dhamar Al Hudaydah Ibb Taiz Mukalla
10,000-99,999	Abs Ad-Dahi 'Amran Ataq Bajil Bayt al-Faqih Al Bayda' Beihan Dimnat Chadir Al Ghaydah Hais Hajjah Al Houta Khamir Al-Mahabischa Al Mahwit Al-Marawi'a Marib Mokha Mudiyah Rada'a Sayyan Seiyun Al-Shihr Socotra Tarim Thula Yarim Zabid Zinjibar
<9,999	Dammaj Habban Al Hajjarah Hutayb Jaʽār Jibla Kawkaban Manakhah Mukayras Saada Shaharah Shibam At Tawilah Wadi Dawan

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