New 447 Somali refugees in Yemen

TAIZ, HADRAMOUT, Nov. 23 (Saba) - Almost further 447 Somali refugees
have arrived in the provinces of Taiz and Hadramout over the period
from 15-21 November 2008.

Police said of the arriving were 275 who arrived in the Brum area in
Hadramout including 31 children and women and 113 Somali refugees
arrived in the Thubaba district in Taiz including 48 women.

According the Information Division at the Interior Ministry, the
rest of the displaced and those who included 21 women arrived in the
Maifa'a district in Shabwa province.

Somalis were gathered and sent to the refugee camp in Lahj province.

Large numbers of Somali displaced people arrive in Yemen coasts,
sometimes daily fleeing poverty and civil war.

Some refugees die as boats, which they come aboard, capsize and
sometimes as they are forced by smugglers to swim to the Yemeni
coasts.

Somalia has been in a civil war since 1991 and from that time
Somalia still without a central government. There is only an
Ethiopia-backed transitional government that has been clashing with
Islamic groups.

The situation in this African Horn country led to many disastrous
effects, the most recent of which is the soaring piracy off
Somalia's coast and in the Gulf of Aden.