Boat loaded with Somali refugees sets off for Somalia
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Reports from Yemen indicate that a boat carrying over 800 Somali refugees sailed from Yemen on Saturday.
The boat which set off from Mukalla Port is expected to docked at some of Somalia’s port soon.
These Refugees will be the second lot of Somalis who are from Yemen where they have been residing since the government of late Mohamed Siyad Barre toppled by rebellions.
It was 30th April when a boat carrying Yemenis refugees docked at the port of Berbera town which lies some 1,600 km northwest of the capital Mogadishu which is controlled by the breakaway administration of Somaliland.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing civil war in Somalia crossed to Yemen over the past twenty five years.