AFPAddis Ababa – Ethiopia has lifted a ban on domestic workers moving overseas after passing a new law to guard against ill-treatment, a government official said on Thursday. Abebe Haile, a director at the labour ministry, said the new law regulates employment agencies that connect jobless Ethiopians with work in foreign countries. While some Ethiopians work legally in the Middle East, others travel without visas despite having to cross through war-torn Yemen and risk a perilous boat trip across the Gulf of Aden. Last week at least 30 people drowned when a boat carrying Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized off Yemen’s coast. Saudi Arabia – a popular destination for Ethiopian migrants – has carried out mass deportations of illegal foreign workers that rights groups have decried for their brutality.

Source: Ethiopian News February 03, 2018 16:18 UTC