The Yemeni rial is not easily convertible outside the country.

Since the mid-1990s the Yemeni rial has been freely convertible.

The mosque cost at least $60 million to build, an unheard of fortune in Yemeni Rials.

In 1993, the first coins were issued for the Republic of Yemen called Yemeni rials.

For purchasing power parity comparisons, the US Dollar is exchanged at 150.11 Yemeni Rials only.

The North Yemeni rial and the South Yemeni dinar remained legal tender during a transitionary period.

Upscale hotels and restaurants will normally accept credit cards, but you’ll need Yemeni rials (the exchange rate is about 200 rials to the dollar) to pay for everything else.

After the unification of Yemen, the Yemeni rial replaced the North Yemeni rial at par.

When the Yemeni rial was introduced, it was decided that 40 buqshas should represent one Yemeni rial, so as to ease the transition.

Some studies done in 2001 estimated that the income from cultivating khat was about 2.5 million Yemeni rials per hectare, while fruits brought only 0.57 million rials per hectare.

He was wanted by the FBI, Interpol, and the United States Department of State, which had offered 5 million dollars (approximately 1 billion Yemeni Rials) to anyone with information about him.

We have more than doubled our humanitarian funding to Yemen over the last year, committing £85 million (USD$120 million, 26 billion Yemeni Rial) and making the UK the 4th largest donor to the humanitarian crisis.

Separately, the central bank said Tuesday that it injected $43 million into the foreign exchange market to support the Yemeni rial, bringing the value of its hard currency sales this year to $495 million, the state news agency Saba reported.

Al-Abasi went on to describe exponential rises in the cost of basic commodities helping to fuel some discontent, ‘The prices, three months ago wheat was 2,000 Yemeni rials, now 7,000 rials, milk has risen three or four times.

In June, the office of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi told the Jabers that the government would provide condolence payments of 2.5 million Yemeni rials ($11,600) each to Salim and Walid's families.

Official sources said that Yemenis had donated more than one billion Yemeni rials in various cities and villages of the country since start of the campaign nine days ago in addition to hundreds of kilograms of gold, jewelry and other material assistance.

On 18 May 2010, six of the pirates were sentenced to death by a court in Sana'a, and six others sentenced to prison terms of 10 years each, and the pirates were ordered to pay 2 million Yemeni rials restitution to the ship's owners.

SANAA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Yemen offered a 15 million Yemeni rial (around $75,000) reward on Saturday for information leading to the capture of gunmen who killed two Belgian tourists and their two Yemeni drivers, a security official said.