Almotamar.net - Yemen's Vice President Abid Rabeh Mansour Hadi said Sunday that Yemen suffers from health difficulties because of the waves of migration from African countries particularly from countries of the Horn of Africa.

In his meeting on Sunday with the visiting delegation of the World Fund for Combating Malaria, Tuberculosis and AIDS headed by President of the Fund the Vice President explained that the thousands of migrants and refugees arrive in Yemeni shores and the impact entailed due to that. He expressed his hope of joining health efforts among the states of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf in fighting epidemics and diseases and supporting the efforts of Yemen for encountering the impact resulting from escalation of the waves of migration.

Mr Hadi has however said despite of those difficulties there are many achievements in this regard and the perseverant work in the fighting of malaria, TB and AIDS and there are programmes in need of international support from relevant organisations and bodies.

Officials in Yemen have increased their warnings against the dangers of the African migration to Yemen and their health, security and social impact in addition to the dangers facing the migrants that reach the extent of death at the hands of smuggling gangs.

The Secretary General of the General People's Congress Abdulqader Bajammal has called the attention to dangers resulting from influx of African migrants into Yemen. In his statement last week Bajammal said Yemen is surrounded by 133 islands and possesses a 2225 km-long coast which receives thousands of illegal refugees every day and that brings health, environmental and social problems to Yemen.

In a symposium held on Yemen in its Regional Surrounding in the mid of this month a French official had warned against the dangers that would be caused by African refugees to Yemen in the future.