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Somali refugees reach Taiz coasts

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Monday, March 30, 2009

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SANA'A (Saba) - About 42 Somali refugees, including 12 women, have reached the coasts of Thubab district in Taiz province.

Security sources said that the refugees were tired and in deplorable conditions.

The security bodies at the district said that the Somalis have been gathered so that they are sent later by Yemen Red Crescent to the main camp of Refugees at Kharaz area in Lahj province.

Meanwhile, 122 Somalis, including 40 women and four children, reached the Kharaz refugees camp.

Around 9000 Somali refugees reached Yemeni coastlines from January 2009, according security sources in the Yemeni provinces.


The influx of Somali refugees is adding to a host of financial and economic problems facing Yemen

Source: Saba, Mar 30, 2009