Some 46 African refugees held in Abyan

ABYAN, Feb. 03 (Saba) - About 46
Africans held after they had disembarked from three boats in Ahwar
coast, Abyan province, the Interior
Ministry reported on Wednesday.
As the boats managed to flee, the security forces have arrested 25
Ethiopians and 21 Somalis.
The security authorities in the governorates said that the Africans
have been held in the in the Shokra centre to be questioned and sent to
the temporary refugee camp of
Ahwar.
Yemen is tightening security at its coastline to thwart possible
infiltration of militants of the Somalia-based Young Mejuhideen Movement
(Harakat Al Shabaab).
The act came after Somalia movement has announced late in 2009
readiness to send militants to support al-Qaeda in Yemen, whose hideouts
in the country raided by the Yemeni
forces.
In recent months, weapons were seized with a number of African
infiltrators who crossed sea into Yemen. Authorities also said that
dozens of Africans, most of whom were
Somalis, were arrested fighting the army in support of the Houthi
insurgents in the far north.
All this comes amid a persistent influx of Africans into the country,
arriving almost in daily numbers, laying more burdens on Yemen's fragile
economy and posing threats
to national and regional security.
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