Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:21:47 +0200
Over 8000 African Immigrants Arrive in Yemen in Three Months
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MENAFN - Qatar News Agency
- 23/04/2014
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) na'a April 23, 2014 - The High Commission for
Refugees has announced that more than 8148 African infiltrators arrived in
Yemen during the first three months of 2014. The Commission said in a report
published today in Sana'a that new arrivals from the Horn of Africa to Yemen
rose in March compared to the number registered during the month of
February. The report stated that 5431 immigrants from the Horn of Africa
arrived in Yemen in March 2014 while 1906 immigrants arrived in the country
during the month of February pointing out that the number of African
refugees who arrived in Yemen until the end of last march amounted to 8148
including 1861 Somalis and 6272 Ethiopians. Meanwhile a Yemeni security
official source said the number of immigrants infiltrating from the Horn of
Africa region to Yemen is on the rise during this period which saw the
arrest of a large number of them pointing out that the Coast Guard in the
coastal city of Mocha in Taiz governorate seized at dawn today a smuggling
boat near the island of Miyun with 75 infiltrators on board including 60
Ethiopians and 15 Somalis among them 4 women. According to the source
military patrols yesterday evening seized a smuggling boat at Zabab coast in
the same province carrying 23 Somalis and 17 Ethiopians.
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