Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 20:51:35 +0200
Refugees in Somaliland
Published April 14, 2016
In the past year, nearly half of the 176,000 people who have fled Yemen’s conflict have gone to the Horn of Africa, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Many are Africans returning to their countries of origin, but about 26,000 are Yemenis with nowhere else to turn. In an unusual development, people from war-torn Yemen are fleeing to a region whose own citizens have been scattered over the world by decades of conflict -- Somaliland.
Landscape view of Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 29, 2016.
Ali Saed Raygal, Somaliland minister of Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, at his desk in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
A Yemeni refugee shows his national identification cards at the center for the Yemen Community, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
Syrian refugee and bakery owner Abdulrahman Darwish, left, is shown with two Yemeni refugee workers at his bakery in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
Syrian refugee Yasser Al-Dawlah, left, and another Syrian refugee inside a Syrian restaurant in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
Yemeni-owned restaurant in downtown Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 29, 2016.
Yemeni refugees Wasiim Said Mohamed, second from right, his wife and their two children are shown in their one-room home in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 31, 2016.
Yemeni refugee Wasiim Said Mohamed and his son at the bakery where Mohamed works for his Syrian friend, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 31, 2016.
A Yemeni refugee shows his home, which he also calls al-Shaibani Restaurant, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
A Yemeni refugee pulls up the mattress in his home to show his bed. He also operates al-Shaibani Restaurant in his home, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
The exterior of al-Shaibani Restaurant, located in the home of a Yemeni refugee, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
Huda Haroon Awjama, manager of the Peaceful Coexistence Center, holds a child of a refugee, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, April 3, 2016. The Center provides language and literacy classes for both refugees and Somalilanders, and is a place for people to gather.
A Yemeni refugee browses the book selections at the Peaceful Coexistence Center, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, April 3, 2016.