Yemen says Eritrea holds Yemeni boats in fishing row

7 February 2012, 6:33 am

SANAA (Reuters) - Eritrea's navy has seized five Yemeni fishing boats in the Red Sea in an area where the two countries have had a territorial dispute, a Yemeni official said on Tuesday. The incident is part of a dispute between Yemen and Eritrea over water rights around the Red Sea's Hanish Islands, which the two countries briefly fought over in 1995. An international court gave Yemen ...... Read More »

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