The UN’s migration agency is aiming to help repatriate at least 6,750 Ethiopian migrants from war-weary Yemen in the coming months. More flights were planned between the southern Yemeni port city of Aden and the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, it added. Yemen’s civil conflict has not prevented migrants from entering the country, desperate to make their way to neighboring Saudi Arabia to find jobs as domestic workers and builders. Last year, around 27,700 migrants set off on the arduous journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, according to the IOM. A Saudi-led coalition entered the war the following year in an attempt to restore the internationally recognized Yemeni government to power.

Source: Ethiopian News May 25, 2022 08:33 UTC