UN renews supporting Yemen to face in immigration challenges

SANA'A, Feb. 10 (Saba)
- UN has renewed its willingness to continue to support Yemen financially and
politically
to face the challenges of illegal immigration from the Horn of Africa.
In the opening of a workshop on reviewing immigration policies in Yemen, the
representative of the European Union praised in her speech the role of Yemen as a
host country
for huge numbers of the Somali refugees. A matter that is required more assistance
to the Yemeni government.
She also highlighted the economic, social and political burdens that are negatively
impacted Yemen.
For his part, Minister of Expatriate Affairs Ahmed Hussein said that "Yemen is
suffering from the escalating number of the illegal migrants from the Horn of
Africa, which
has reached 800,000 refugees, according to international organization estimations".
The economic and social burdens of the illegal immigration make it worse on Yemen,"
he added.
He has applauded the strong role the international organizations, topped by the
International Organization of Immigration (IOM), play in Yemen to alleviate the
problem's
impacts.
The two-day EU-organized workshop aims to train 30 participants on how to review
immigration policies in addition to present international experiences in this
regard.
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