“Somali refugees forced to join Yemen rebels”


  1. Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Hundreds of Somali refugees were being forced to join Yemeni rebel group as to fighting against Yemen forces in northern Yemen, a Somali diplomat, Hussein Haji Ahmed, in Aden said on Wednesday.
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    He told the BBC Somali services that Somalis refugees are being seized in mountainous territory while trying to cross border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Haji stated the refugees those who rejected to join the insurgence were executed.

    Both Yemen and Saudi Arabia have claimed that Somali refugees have been fighting with Houthu rebels.
        
    More than 16,000 Somali refugees have fled to Yemen in recent years to run off the ongoing fighting in Somalia. They risk their lives and cross the sea in fishing boat.

    Refugees try to go their way to Saudi Arabia looking for better life and education. But trackers to carry them over dangerous land
     
    Haji said refugees crossed the border into Saudi Arabia were sometimes turned back by security forces and this leaves them to the area of the rebels.
     
    The Houthi rebels have been fighting the Yemen government since 2004 in the northern of Yemen. Yemen military forces launched a fresh offensive in August 2009. Also last month Saudi forces began air and artillery hit on Yemen after insurgent shouted and killed a border guard in a raid.
     




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