"The suffering of migrants on this migration route is enormous. The migrants had been hoping to reach the Gulf via Yemen to find better opportunities and escape the political instability and violence plaguing their nations. The IOM estimates 55,000 migrants left the Horn of Africa to come to Yemen since January. Smugglers work in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. More than 30,000 of those migrants are under age 18 and from Somalia or Ethiopia, while a third are estimated to be female.

Source: Ethiopian News August 10, 2017 00:33 UTC