Aden — Security sources have revealed that dozens of irregular African migrants landed on the shores of Shabwa governorate in southeastern Yemen, in what authorities described as a new wave of unlawful entry into the country.

The Interior Ministry’s Security Media Center, citing Shabwa police on Sunday, said 180 African migrants arrived on the coast of the governorate “in a new surge of African inflows into the country through illegal means.”

Police officials reported that the migrants reached Al‑Ain coast in Rudum district aboard a smuggling vessel named Al‑Jazeera, operated by a crew of four Somali sailors.

Authorities confirmed that all the migrants originated from the Horn of Africa and hold Ethiopian nationality.

The police stressed that security forces are “taking all possible measures to address the influx and infiltration of Africans into the governorate, in order to safeguard security and stability and prevent the negative repercussions and security risks posed by irregular migration waves.”