Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

Somalia: Scores of Somalis Detained in Sudan

19 November 2008


Mogadishu — At least 100 Somali youths have been arrested in the southern Sudan town of jubba those allegedly wanted to pass on to Libya, victims said.

The youths those were parts of immigrants fled from the violence in the warn torn horn of Africa country have been put in Jubba towns jails as 20 of them were sentenced one year of prison each one.

A Somali boy Liban Irro who spoke to Shabelle by phone from Jubba town has noted that southern Sudan authorities have taken them from expenses and them detained them.

As their country still on the top of world violence the influx of Somali refugees have doubled in the world countries those encounter more difficulties in their better life searching aims.

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