{"id":486,"date":"2015-04-27T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=486"},"modified":"2015-04-27T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:05:50","slug":"over-1000-somali-refugees-arrive-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Over 1000 Somali refugees arrive in Somalia."},"content":{"rendered":"

A boat carrying at least 1153 Somali refugees has docked Bossaso port on Saturday where Puntland officials and the administration of Bossaso have welcomed these refugees to Bossaso.
\nSeveral ambulances have ferried some of the refugees who were sustaining injuries to Bossaso hospitals.
\nSome of the refugees who gave exclusive interview to Goobjoog News said that the lives of Somali people in Yemen are in danger and if they are not evacuated soon, they will be caught up in worse situations.
\n\u201cI am from Sana\u2019a, the capital city of Yemen, we took 24-hour journey by boat to reach the port town of Bossaso, the boat sailed from Mukalah port\u201d said Sahra Osman Sudiye.
\nShe added that her family which consist of eight members has been living Yemen for 25years.
\n\u201cWe are displaced by the civil war escalating in Yemen and bombings carrying out by Saudi led coalition\u201d She said.
\nAnother returnee, Muhudi Jim\u2019aale Noor said that he has lost two his sons in Yemen and decided to return to home.
\n\u201cI was casual worker, I used to wash cars as to get my bread and I broke up the mother of my children, so I was bread winner of these children\u201d he noted.
\nShankaroon Abdullahi, a mother of two, who has been living Yemen for ten years has urged the government and other well-wishers to give her transport to her destination, Mogadishu the capital city of Somalia.
\nAn expatriate who was standing place not far away from where Shankaroon was interviewed, said that there are deteriorating situations in Yemen, there are Somali refugees are living in that situation.
\n\u201cWe thank Almighty God, Allah has saved us from that place and May Allah save those other refugees in Yemen\u201d he prayed God.
\n\u201cI have been staying in Yemen since 2002 and I was capable of getting my daily bread but now Yemen has became just like Somalia therefore we decided to come back our country\u201d
\nHe finally called upon Somali people help their brotherly refugees in Yemen.
\nSpeaking at the port of Bossaso, Mayor, Hassan Abdalla Hassan has detailed the number of the Somali refugees brought by the boat saying \u201cat about 11am a boat carrying 1153 refugees mostly children sick people and aged people has docked at Bassaso port.<\/p>\n

The mayor called upon well-wishers, NGOs and Somali people to help these Somali refugees.
\nPuntland Assistant minister for interior Abdullahi Qoob-Deero for his part said that a boat carrying refugees comprising of Somali citizens and foreigners has arrived Bossaso town.
\nPuntland government has earlier announced ministerial level committee to work on and closely monitor the increasing voilance in Yemen and Somali refugees arriving Puntland in large numbers.
\nOn the other hand, Puntland has also called its people to welcome and host Somali people who are fleeing Yemen in fear for their lives.
\nDue to the escalating conflict in Yemen, Somali refugees who fled Somalia\u2019s civil war early 1990s have been pouring back to Puntland, Especially Bossaso, a port town that lies hours ride from Yemeni\u2019s main towns of San\u2019a and Add\u2019an.<\/p>\n

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