East Africa: Despite Raging Conflict, Scores of Refugees Continue to Arrive in Yemen By Sea - UN

27 October 2015

The ongoing conflict and the widening humanitarian crisis in Yemen has not deterred nearly 70,000 refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants to reach the country by sea causing the Yemini population to 'bear the brunt,' said the United Nations refugee agency today.

These desperate people, mainly from Somalia and Ethiopia, have continued to arrive at the Yemeni shores even after the conflict erupted in the Middle Eastern country in March, Adrian Edwards, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Day told reporters in Geneva.

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