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The Yemeni community in Somalia’s Puntland region is facing widespread arbitrary arrests and repressive measures, amid a troubling official silence from the internationally recognized Yemeni government, signaling a new level of failure in its foreign policy.
According to testimonies from activists and expatriates, Puntland authorities are carrying out extensive arrests of Yemenis, coinciding with their mistreatment and demands for immediate termination of their residency status, with no effective intervention from the Yemeni embassy. This raises questions about the value of international recognition for a government that is unable to secure even the most basic rights for its citizens.
Yemeni expatriates, caught between the hammer of Somali repression and the anvil of official abandonment, are issuing distress calls to international human rights organizations, revealing the harsh reality of “refugees without protection” in neighboring countries, amid a fatigued Yemeni foreign policy that is marked by recurring diplomatic tensions with its regional allies.
This incident is but another chapter in the series of failures of the Yemeni government, which has turned the issue of international legitimacy into a futile tool, incapable of even using it to protect its citizens from violations that contradict human rights conventions and international law.
