(IRIN): Yemen crisis a boon for people smugglers

From: Berhane Habtemariam <Berhane.Habtemariam_at_gmx.de_at_dehai.org>
Date: Fri Nov 21 11:26:38 2014

Yemen crisis a boon for people smugglers

SANAA, 21 November 2014 (IRIN) - Yemen's security crisis is leading to a
rapid expansion in the people smuggling trade, with thousands of migrants
from the Horn of Africa desperate to use the country as a gateway to Saudi
Arabia.

On 21 September, Houthi rebels - a Zaydi Shiite Muslim group based in the
north of the country - seized control of the capital Sana'a after a battle
with the army and Sunni Islamists.

Three cabinet overhauls in less than two months and ongoing clashes in many
regions have thrown the country into a state of limbo. The UN Security
Council and the US also recently complicated matters by imposing sanctions
on former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and two senior Houthi military
commanders........

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Berhane





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