26_September [Archives:2007/1084/Press Review]

Thursday, September 6
Main Headlines

-President Saleh to new envoys: You have to improve ties and enhance cooperation

-Security authorities confiscate 1800 arm pieces

-Prime Minister directs Ministry of Public Works and Highways to finalize capital city's plans, develop services

-Yemeni government and World Trade Organization discuss Yemen's WTO entry

-Authorities to transfer riot detainees to Public Prosecution

-IPA to deport 52 African illegal immigrants

The weekly paper quoted an official source as saying on Wednesday that the Immigration and Passports Authority (IPA) is about to repatriate 52 African immigrants entered illegally to Yemen. The source added that the sneaking Africans were 35 Somalis and 17 Eritrean natives, noting that the IPA is about to complete legal procedures to repatriate them to their homes next week. Yemen's coastguards have detained those immigrants attempting to sneak to the country through beaches of Shabwa province, 400 km east of the capital Sana'a.

According to the newspaper IPA denied the authenticity of reports saying that the Authority has arrested 77 African people. It said that only 59 African refugees, some of them are Somalis, have been in the authority's custody for a month. UN agencies are working to prevent thousands of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers from risking their lives onboard overcrowded open fishing boats whilst trying to reach Yemen as deadly annual people-smuggling season resumes in full force in the Gulf of Aden.
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