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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 401
30 September - 6 October 2007


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" 
http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportId=74594]


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