The government of Yemen has sealed its sea border with Somalia in an effort to discourage armed human traffickers from bringing illegal immigrants to Yemen. According to news agencies in Yemeni capital Sana, a high-ranking navy official, who asked not to be named, said that several contingents of Yemeni navy forces were deployed to the Red Sea to tighten the security. | About six boats carrying hundreds of Somali and Ethiopian migrants have been averted by Yemen navy forces. |
Most of the illegal immigrants travel from the Somali autonomous regional government of Puntland. He said about six boats carrying hundreds of Somali and Ethiopian migrants have been averted by Yemen navy forces. Yemen was one of the Arab countries trying to mediate Somalia's defeated Islamists and the transitional government, which is currently in control of most of the country.