[20/November/2009]

SANA'A, Nov. 20 (Saba) – Yemen is to start in the next few days investigating 26 Somalis who were held while fighting the troops in support of the Houthi insurgents in the north.

The information center of the Interior ministry said the Africans were arrested during the fresh confrontations with the rebels which started in August this year.

After their arrest, the authorities in Saada sent the arrestees to the Central Jail in Sana'a for prosecutors to complete investigations of them.

On the other side, the Interior ministry has ordered the Migration, Passport and Nationality Authority to arrange for the deportation of 194 Africans who illegally entered Yemen this year.

Those to be deported included 114 Ethiopians, 41 Eritreans, 14 Nigerians and 20 Sudanese. They also included 16 women, 15 Ethiopians and one Eritrean.

So far this year, the Yemeni authorities arrested about 1000 Africans who infiltrated into it illegally, most through the Midy port in Hajjah in the north.

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Saba