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Many Somalis in Yemen now speak Arabic instead of their native Somali language due to language shift. [7] But also due to the fact that there are no Somali teachers in the refugee camps or enough budget to allocate funds to teach the Somali language. [8] Many Somalis have returned back to their homeland deeming its safe enough to return.
A number of Somali clans trace descent to the latter region. [68] During the colonial period, disgruntled Yemenis from the Hadhrami wars sought and received asylum in various Somali towns. [69] Yemen in turn unconditionally opened its borders to Somali nationals following the outbreak of the civil war in Somalia in the early 1990s. [70]
Somalia maintains an embassy in Yemen. The diplomatic mission is led by Ambassador Ismail Qassim Naji. [14] Yemen also has an embassy in Mogadishu. [15] The diplomatic mission is headed by Ambassador Fu'ad Mohamed Al Zorqah. [12] In May 2015, Yemen opened a new consulate in Puntland. [16] Additionally, Puntland is slated to open a consulate in ...
A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, killing at least 49 people and leaving another 140 missing, the U.N. agency said Tuesday. The boat was carrying about 260 Somalis and ...
Yemen would later claim to have captured 28 Somali troops. [56] Other sources indicated that Somali fighters were used to dig trenches to hide ammunition and launch ambushes from the mountains. [57] By December, a Somali diplomat claimed that many Somali refugees faced abduction by the Houthis as they fled into Saudi Arabia.
A fishing community’s anger gave birth to Somali piracy. Going back to the 1990s, the agony of the local fishing community over unregulated commercial trawling was a catalyst for the rise of piracy.
The Yemeni crisis began with the 2011–2012 revolution against President Abdullah Saleh, who had led Yemen for 33 years. [1] [2] After Saleh left office in early 2012 as part of a mediated agreement between the Yemeni government and opposition groups, the government led by Saleh's former vice president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, struggled to unite the fractious political landscape of the country ...
Sheikh is one of 35,000 Syrians who left Turkey for Syria full of hope in the first three weeks after Assad was toppled on Dec. 8, giving up the right to come back to Turkey after signing a ...