Almotamar.net - Local sources in Shabwa governorate told almotamar.net Sunday 115 Somali refugees, among them 20 women, arrived at the beaches of the governorate, at a time some official sources announced the arrival of other 597 Somali refugees, among them 180 women and children, arrived at a number of Yemeni coasts in a new wave of Somali migration.

According to the sources the district of Maifa'a, the governorate of Shabwa received 115 Somali refugees on Saturday before sending them to Kharaz camp for the refugees in the governorate of Lahj.

This comes at the time when the Information Centre at the Ministry of Interior said beaches of a number of governorates received 597 Somali refugees as part of continual waves of refugees arriving in Yemen from Somalia and Horn of Africa countries. The Centre pointed out that beaches of Ahwar, Abyan governorate received 252 refugees and beaches of Radhoum, governorate of Hadramout received 115 refugees while 205 Somali refugees landed at the beaches of Thubab, the governorate of Taiz.

Last week a meting between Yemen's Prime Minister Dr Ali Mohammed Mujawar and the UNHCR representative in Yemen discussed possibility of finding a law co concerning refugees or an institutional framework concerned with issues of this group through benefiting from experiments of countries having circumstances similar to those of Yemen.

It is worth mentioning that official statistics indicate that the number of African refugees in Yemen is 750 thousand refugees.