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More on Midi Island, Yemen

Filed under: Refugees, Saudi Arabia, pirates, smuggling — by Jane Novak at 8:43 am on Friday, September 4, 2009

Continuing our previous discussion of the huge explosion on Midi Island, news from Al Motamar

On the other hand Yemeni security apparatuses arrested 107 African migrants in the island of Midi holding Nigerian, Chadian and Sudanese nationalities. The security men also said 2 of the African migrants; one Nigerian youth and a woman in her 6th decade have died and doctors said the death was natural.

The rest of the African migrants were transported to the Centre Al-Jazeera Leadership for investigation and then they were detained in Hudeida province. It is to be noted that this is the third rime African migrants to attempt to infiltrate into Yemeni territories via the island of Midi. On most occasions investigations proved that the African migrants, mostly Sudanese, were intending to infiltrate into Saudi territories across Yemeni territories.

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Pingback by Iran Shipping Missiles to Midi Island? | Armies of Liberation

10/22/2009 @ 3:35 pm

[...] boats explained, could Iran be shipping from Sudan? One of the boats exploded in a Sudanese port. Midi is a new transit point for Sudanese [...]

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