MAHARA, May 16 (Saba) – Police in the city of Ghaidah, Maharah, have apprehended three Somalis accused of stealing a briefcase which had inside 6 million Yemeni rials’ worth of jewelry.

The Interior Ministry’s Information Center reported that preliminary investigations with the arrested revealed the three were guilty of robbery.

The briefcase was in a car parked at one of the city streets when the Somalis arrested along with a fourth accomplice who a search for is ongoing took it.

Many African migrants, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians, arrive in Yemen almost daily, fleeing deteriorating humanitarian situations in their homelands.

Yemen says the number of Africans who have already arrived in Yemen exceeds 700.000 people.

I says the flow of Africans overburdens its fragile economy, urging the international community to provide further assistance to enable it shelter and provide necessary aid materials for the people.

African refugees and illegal migrants, most of whom from the African Horn states, usually reach Yemeni territories via a dangerous sea route where many die when overcrowded smuggling boats capsize or when they are ordered by the boat owners to swim in deep waters to Yemeni coasts.

About 131 African migrants, mostly from Somalia, drowned while trying to reach Yemeni territories through sea and 66 others went missing during the first months of 2009, the UNHRC says.

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Saba

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