A United Nations agency has demanded "urgent humanitarian access" to migrants - mostly Ethiopians - in Yemen who have been wounded in a deadly fire at an overcrowded detention center in Sanaa. "We are facing challenges accessing the injured due to an increased security presence in the hospitals." The fire was in a hangar near the main "overcrowded" building, which then housed nearly 900 migrants, mainly Ethiopian, according to IOM. Yemen is a transit country for tens of thousands of migrants travelling between the Horn of Africa and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Houthis were regularly accused of preventing or complicating the work of NGOs in the territories they control.

Source: Ethiopian News March 10, 2021 15:33 UTC