More Somali refugees in Yemen
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 23/2/2009
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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.
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