Yemen's Medi Island new passing-through point for African refugees into Gulf

Yemen's Medi Island of Hajjah province close to the Saudi borders has become a new passing point for African refugees to the Gulf countries. The past few days witnessed the arrival of large groups said that an anonymous groups of African refugees from different nationalities-Nigerians, Sudanese, Chadian.

The Red Sea has become also the new passing through point for African refugees after it was only confined to Somalis and their fatal trips in the Gulf of Aden.
 
Yemen's Coastguards have captured more than 500 Africans while attempting to sneak into the lands of Saudi Arabia. The coastguards also have captured 110 African refugees in the Medi Island after thie arrival on a smuggling boat. Sources at the coastguards said that there were several cars that were waiting for them to carry them to Hardh district located at the Saudi borders to smuggle them into Saudi Arabia.

Two days ago 400 people from the Sudanese Rashaida tribe arrived to the Medi Island who were smuggled to the island illegally planning to enter to Saudi Arabia, stated interior ministry information center.

The Rashaida are a Bedouin tribe populating either side of the Red Sea as well as other parts of the Arabian Peninsula. They are descendents from a major Arab tribe in the Peninsula called Banu Abs. Most of the Rashaida live on the Arabian Peninsula.

Last year, about 70 Sudanese people drowned in Yemeni waters off Hajjah. Details of their voyage are still vague.

Yemeni fishermen found their bodies after the waves washed them up on the Yemeni shore. They were buried immediately on a Yemeni island near the site.

 

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