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Monday, January 28, 2013

[Africa] Migrants at Sea - UNHCR: Record Number of Migrants and Refugees Crossed Gulf of Aden in 2012


28.01.2012. The UNHCR reported on 15 January 2013 that “[a] record 107,500 African refugees and migrants made the dangerous journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen in 2012. This is the largest influx into Yemen since 2006 when UNHCR began compiling these statistics. The previous record high was in 2011 when more than 103,000 people arrived in Yemen by sea.”

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