HORN OF AFRICA: HORN OF AFRICA Weekly Round-up 401 for 30 September - 6 October 2007
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NAIROBI, 5 October 2007 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: YEMEN-: Worries over increasing African exodus to Yemen
SUDAN: Attack raises questions over hybrid force See also: SOMALIA:
Living in fear of more floods http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportId=74569 YEMEN-HORN OF AFRICA: Worries over increasing African exodus to Yemen The Somali consulate in Yemen's
southern province of Aden has said it is worried about the increasing number of smugglers' boats being used to ferry African migrants, mostly Somalis, from the Horn of Africa to Yemen. It also
expressed concern about the deaths of Somalis and the squalid conditions in which survivors live. The UN Refugee Agency on 28 September said that in September alone 50 such boats had reached Yemen
from Somalia carrying 4,741 people, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians - a 70 percent increase on the same period last year when 30 boats arrived with 2,961 people. Eighty-nine African migrants had died in
September and 154 had gone missing and were presumed dead, it added.
[Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportId=74567 ] SUDAN: Attack raises questions over hybrid force The
29 September attack on an African peacekeeping base in Darfur has raised fresh questions about the planned transformation of the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS) into a hybrid AU-UN force that includes
personnel from non-African countries. Ten AU peacekeepers were killed in Haskanita, North Darfur, and 50 others are still missing. Abdoulaye Wade, the president of Senegal, which has contributed
about 540 troops to AMIS, threatened to pull his soldiers out of Darfur if it transpired that the peacekeepers lost their lives because of a lack of equipment. One of the soldiers killed in Haskanita
was Senegalese.
[Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportId=74645 ]
[See also: Darfur attackers "committed war crimes"
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