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Fresh 69 Somali refugees reach Yemen
[The Source: mukalla/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.com - 17/03/2010]
About 69 Somali refugees have arrived at Yemeni coasts on smuggling boats, the Interior Ministry has reported.
About 39 refugees including 9 women reached Broom coast in the eastern province of Hadramout.They were gathered and handed to the UNHCR in order to send them to a temporary refugee camp in Maifa'a, Shabwa.Thubab coast of Tiaz province has received about 30 refugees including 13 women who were sent the Kharaz camp in Lahj.In the north, police in the capital Sana'a have arrested 7 foreigners including Indians, after they entered the country illegally.The authorities say the number of people from the Horn of Africa who have already arrived in the country until last year is more 700000 people, mainly coming from Somalia.Yemen has ordered security authorities in all coastal cities to close all waterways to prevent possible infiltration of terrorists from Africa after Somalia's al-Shabaab Movement said it would send fighters to support al-Qaeda in the country. [
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