http://www.english.hadhramaut.info More Somali refugees in Yemen [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 23/2/2009] Police in the eastern province of Hadramout have said further 140 Somali refugees  including 42 women and 9 children had arrived in the coast of Burm in the province. The African refugees were gathered and handed over to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to take arrangements for their transfer to a special refuge in the province of Shabwa as a prelude to transfer them to a main refuge in the Kharaz area of Lahj province. African refugees, most Somalis, continue to arrive in Yemen with those who have already arrived in the country exceeding 800.000 refugees. The refugees lay more burdens on the country's fragile economy. They usually arrive through the sea and many die either as overcrowded boats capsize or as the refugees are enforced by smugglers to swim until they reach far Yemeni coasts. Last month, two ferries carrying more than 300 Somali and Ethiopian displaced people capsized off the Bab El-Mandab strait. Hundreds of the refugees onboard were feared dead and many others were rescued.