Human Rights Watch is urging the Saudi government to halt its plan to expel hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian immigrants who missed a late August deadline to register or face deportation. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 Ethiopians currently reside in Saudi Arabia, only a fraction of whom have registered their presence with the government. Saudi Arabia last deported large numbers of Ethiopians in 2013. And In June, Ethiopia's National Disaster and Risk Management Agency allocated $58.2 million to help reintegrate citizens sent home from from Saudi Arabia. She says its hard to understand why so few Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia register with the government.

Source: Ethiopian News September 04, 2017 16:41 UTC