Yemeni journalists promised to address refugee issues, just as they address other national issues.

“There is no country in the whole world which does not export or import refugees and this problem is not the result of the day but it existed a long time ago,” said Sami al-Haddadi, UNHCR representative. “Any country does not have the right to reject refugees but to receive them first and then decide what to do with them. Government is the primarily responsible and then comes the UNHCR role to fill the gaps,” he added. There are some rumors about paying $200 to $300 to refugees but the UNHCR rejected this. “We are not at all paying refugees any penny unless in very rare cases,” added Sami.

“Government says that there is around 740 thousand refugee. We started registration processes on the 3rd of last March in Sana’a, Aden and Lahj and we are now in the implementation of recent guidance that is to finish in two months,” said Essam al-Mahbashi, member of Technical Committee in National Committee for Refugees. “We now prepare teams that are going to move to the other small governorates which a few number of refugees exist there. For the journalists I hope they check the truth before start writing because they cause problems among natives and the refugees,” added Essam.

“The annual rate of arrivals from the horn of Africa has reached 30-40 thousand people. There is the so-called automatic acceptance which is based on the current situations in Somalia. Also, the individual acceptance is left to the UNHCR to solve their problems because of the contemporary situation the country faces,” said Fetwan Ali Mohammed, member of the Technical Committee of the National Committee for Refugees.