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27 Mar 2007

Somalia + 1 other
Horn of Africa-Yemen: Thirty-five migrants dead, 113 missing

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SANAA, 27 March 2007 (IRIN) - At least 35 migrants were confirmed dead and 113 others missing and presumed dead after making a perilous sea voyage from Somalia to Yemen, a Somali community leader told IRIN on Monday.

The migrants had left from the Somali port of Bossaso and crossed the Gulf of Aden. The bodies of those that died were found at Bir Ali in the southern province of Shabwa.

Sadat Mohammed, Head of Refugee Affairs in the Somali Community in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, said the incident occurred on 22 March as knife-wielding traffickers forced 450 Somalis and

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26 Mar 2007

Somalia + 2 others
At least 29 dead in smuggling run off Yemen; UNHCR "horrified"

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees

GENEVA, March 26 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said Monday that at least 29 people were confirmed dead and 71 others reported missing after knife-wielding smugglers forced some 450 Somalis and Ethiopians into stormy seas off the coast of Yemen.

"The incident, the latest in a series of tragedies involving smugglers' boats carrying people across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia, occurred last Thursday along a remote stretch of Yemen coastline at Ras-Alkalb," said a UNHCR press release, adding that it brought the total number of dead and missing so far this year in Yemen to 262.

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23 Mar 2007

Somalia + 1 other
Asphyxiation, beating, drowning: the price of crossing the Gulf of Aden

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 23 March 2007, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Over the past 6 days, Yemen has again received more than 1,100 Somalis and Ethiopians who arrived on smuggling boats from Bosaso, Somalia, across the Gulf of Aden. According to our latest information, we believe that at least 28 people died during these recent voyages - from asphyxiation, beating or drowning - and many were badly injured by the smugglers. Others are suffering from various skin problems

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20 Mar 2007

Ethiopia + 2 others
Ethiopia: UNHCR - More resources needed for Yemen's refugees

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— Yemen Times

By: Mohammed Al-Jabri

SANA'A, March 20 - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said that needed increased resources to cope with refugees living in squalid conditions outside refugee camps, even though it has the second largest budget in Yemen. The annual UNHCR budget allocated for Yemen currently stands at $4.7million. Since January of this year more than 2,500 people have landed on the Yemeni coast, with at least 136 people dead and many still missing have perished on the perilous journey from the Horn of Africa.

The announcement was made during a press

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16 Mar 2007

Somalia + 1 other
Yemen: High-level visit to review UNHCR's operations, raise awareness

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 16 March 2007, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Ms. Erika Feller, and our Geneva-based director for the Middle East and North Africa yesterday began a five-day mission to Yemen to review our operations in the country. The visit is also intended to raise awareness about the continuing arrival of mixed population movements by sea across

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13 Mar 2007

Yemen
Yemen: Thousands displaced by rebel fighting

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— IRIN

SANAA, 13 March 2007 (IRIN) - Thousands of residents of the northern province of Saada have been displaced from their homes following clashes between government troops and followers of the deceased Shia leader Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi.

Al-Houthi followers espouse anti-US and anti-Israeli sentiments, accusing the government of kowtowing to the US. Their popular refrain in mosques and public meetings is 'Death to America; curse to the Jews and victory for Islam".

Observers say al-Houthi followers have strong faith in their current leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the grandson

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05 Mar 2007

Iraq + 7 others
Guterres urges Arab League to play greater role in UNHCR's work

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees

CAIRO, Egypt, March 5 (UNHCR) - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Monday was wrapping up a three-day visit to Egypt during which he praised Arab states for their traditional generosity toward the displaced, urged them to take a more active role in UNHCR's work and called for international solidarity in easing the plight of Iraqis fleeing conflict in their homeland.

In a landmark opening address on Sunday to the 127th meeting of the League of Arab States' (LAS) Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, Guterres noted that Arab and Islamic countries

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