SANA'A, March 13 (Saba) – About 750 Africans, including 85 women and 25 children, sneaked into Yemen last February, Interior Ministry has reported.
The security sources said that about 382 of the Africans were Ethiopians, arrested either immediately at their arrivals to the Yemeni coasts or inside cities.
The rest of the Africans were from different nationalities; Nigerian, Sudanese, Eritrean and Djiboutian.
Moreover, security authorities in Abyan province have arrested on 102 Ethiopians, including 15 women and three children, in Ahwar coast, while five others were arrested in Taiz province. All of them were sent to the competent authorities to take the legal procedures.
People from the Horn of Africa countries continue to flee their ravaged countries heading to Yemen, with the authorities saying the number of those who have already arrived in the country until last year is more 700,000 people, mainly coming from Somalia.
Yemen has ordered security authorities in all coastal cities to close all waterways to prevent possible infiltration of terrorists from Africa after Somalia's al-Shabaab Movement said it would send fighters to support al-Qaeda in the country.
Al-Shabaab's statement followed successful government raids against al-Qaeda hideouts in north and south Yemen in late 2009 in which scores of terrorist suspects were killed and arrested.
Demonym Eritrean Government Provisional government
- President Isaias Afewerki
Independence
- From Italy November 1941
- From United Kingdom under UN Mandate 1951
- from Ethiopia de facto 24 May 1991
- From Ethiopia de jure 24 May 1993
Area
- Total 117,600 km2 (100th)
45,405 sq mi - Water (%) 0.14%
Population
- 2009 estimate 5,224,000[4] (109th)
- 2008 census 5,291,370
- Density 43.1/km2 (165th)
111.7/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2010 estimate
- Total $3.625 billion[5]
- Per capita $681[5]
GDP (nominal) 2010 estimate
- Total $2.117 billion[5]
- Per capita $397[5]
HDI (2007) steady 0.472 (low) (165th)
Currency Nakfa (ERN)
Time zone EAT (UTC+3)
- Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+3)
Drives on the right
ISO 3166 code ER
Internet TLD .er
Calling code 291
1 ,. National TV: Eritrea Television (ERI-TV)
Eritrea (play /ˌɛrɨˈtreɪ.ə/ or /ˌɛrɨˈtriːə/;[6] Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeast and east of the country has an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands are part of Eritrea. Eritrea's size is approximately 117,600 km2 (45,406 sq mi) with an estimated population of 6 million...
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