Saying it was “alarmed by the deteriorating situation of Ethiopian migrants detained” in Saudi Arabia, IOM called for urgent action, including access to humanitarian aid to ensure migrants’ safety. Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry said in a September 3 news release that 3,500 of its citizens had been repatriated from Saudi Arabia from April to July. FILE - Ethiopian migrants disembark from a boat onto the shores of Yemen on July 26, 2019. The 21-year-old said his family helped him cover the traffickers’ fee of almost 70,000 Ethiopian birr, or $1,900, to get to Saudi Arabia. But as Yemen’s conflict dragged on, he refocused early this year on Saudi Arabia.

Source: Ethiopian News September 18, 2020 04:30 UTC