{"id":8985,"date":"2015-04-23T20:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arabsiyonews.net\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2015-04-23T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:36:47","slug":"yemeni-refugees-fleeing-saudi-air-strikes-find-peace-but-little-else-in-somaliland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/23\/yemeni-refugees-fleeing-saudi-air-strikes-find-peace-but-little-else-in-somaliland\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni refugees fleeing Saudi air strikes find peace but little else in Somaliland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hargeisa(AN) \u2018It is driving people crazy,\u2019 says one of hundreds arriving across the Gulf of Aden in Berbera. \u2018The air raids are destroying more houses than the fighting\u2019<\/p>\n

It was just after midnight when the livestock ship carrying nearly 200 people fleeing Yemen\u2019s civil war docked at the port in the Somaliland city of Berbera.\"yemen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As aid workers set up registration tables in the light of Red Crescent ambulance headlights, the migrants slowly filed on to land across a plank the size of a door. Families sat in circles on the gravel, attending to crying children or staring blankly at the stacks of cargo containers surrounding them. They looked dazed and exhausted, but they were happy to be alive.<\/p>\n

This was the fourth \u2013 and most crowded \u2013 shipload of refugees fleeing Yemen to reach Berbera since late March, when a Saudi Arabia-led coalition began a bombing campaign against Shia Houthi rebels who forced President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi into exile.
\nIt is an exodus that seems unlikely to end any time soon, despite Saudi Arabia\u2019s announcement on Tuesday night that it had ended its bombing campaign. Saudi warplanes launched new air strikes against rebel positions in Aden and Taez on Wednesday and aid workers have warned that the humanitarian situation in Yemen remains \u201ccatastrophic\u201d after months of fighting.<\/p>\n

International airports such as the one in Sana\u2019a have been demolished, and fleeing overland is risky as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula continues to control swaths of territory in the east.<\/p>\n

So far more than 2,000 people have made the journey across the Gulf of Aden to the coast of Somaliland, and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, expects that over the next six months as many as 100,000 more will follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason people are coming here is because of the planes,\u201d said Mohammed, 21, one of the boat\u2019s passengers. \u201cIt is driving people crazy. The air raids are destroying more houses than the fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another man pulled out his mobile phone and showed pictures of the destruction. One showed the body of a man lying on the street \u2013 charred beyond recognition except for its leg, which was just a stretch of clean white bone.
\nThe current flow of refugees reverses an earlier migration across the Gulf of Aden which began in the late 1980s when civil war forced hundreds of thousands to flee Somalia. Reed more<\/p>\n

Source: The guardian.com<\/p>\n

Arabsiyonews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hargeisa(AN) \u2018It is driving people crazy,\u2019 says one of hundreds arriving across the Gulf of Aden in Berbera. \u2018The air raids are destroying more houses than the fighting\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-wararka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kp1p-2kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}