Wednesday, March 12, 2008

YEMEN: Local health charity struggles to cope with new refugee influx

from IRIN via AlertNet

A health charity in southern Yemen has said the increasing influx of African refugees is putting pressure on the services it is trying to provide.

The Charitable Society for Social Welfare (CSSW), a local non-governmental organisation, runs two health facilities in the south - one at Kharaz refugee camp in Lahj Governorate, and the other in Aden, which is home to over 15,000 African (mainly Somali) refugees.

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