SANAA, Yemen — A leader of the migrant community in the Yemeni capital on Saturday called for an international probe into a fire that tore through a detention centre last week, killing at least 44 people, mostly Ethiopian migrants. Women from the migrant community were seen screaming and crying while ambulances, carrying the bodies, arrived from a funeral service at a major mosque. The Houthis also prevented the U.N. migration agency from accessing injured migrants at hospitals, the agency said. Yemen’s six-year-old civil war has not prevented migrants from entering the country, desperate to make their way to neighbouring Saudi Arabia to find jobs as housekeepers, servants and construction workers. Over 2,500 migrants reached Yemen from Djibouti in January, according to IOM.

Source: Ethiopian News March 13, 2021 15:53 UTC