I guess the exception would be Venezuela," he told reporters, referring to the exodus of about 3 million people from crisis-hit Venezuela in recent years. "Migrants reaching Yemen travel first by land, primarily through Djibouti, and eventually undergo perilous boat journeys across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, now one of the busiest maritime migration routes in the world," Millman said. Millman said the migrants were driven by drought and unemployment in the Horn of Africa and lured by the wages available in the Gulf. People smugglers used Yemen's war to drum up business, claiming that the authorities were too preoccupied to monitor Yemen's borders properly. "There are minefields to cross, there is gunfire... there are car crashes, all kinds of dangerous spots along the border.

Source: Ethiopian News December 04, 2018 19:52 UTC