UN official warns mass deportations risk spread of coronavirus to the region BY TESFANEWS* The Ethiopian government is set to receive over 3,000 Ethiopians deported from Saudi Arabia after the kingdom took the measure in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.
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The release comes after a request by Ethiopian prime minister during an official visit to Riyadh, Ethiopian media reports. BY AL JAZEERA Saudi Arabia has agreed to release 1,000 Ethiopian nationals who have been in prison in the Gulf state for a variety of offenses Ethiopian state-affiliated media said.
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Persecution and hardship in the Oromia region drives tens of thousands of migrants each year to cross the Red Sea from Djibouti, in a bid to reach the Gulf BY TOM GARDNER | THE GUARDIAN We met in the desert,” says Badru Mohammed, gesturing at his three companions. The four Ethiopian boys pause for breath […]
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Ethiopians continue to look outside of their “double-digit growing” country for better life BY LISA SCLEIN | VOA NEWS The United Nations migration agency reports that thousands of Ethiopian migrants continue to make the perilous journey to war-torn Yemen in search of better economic opportunities despite the dangerous security conditions. Despite the ongoing war and […]
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Ethiopians constitute 26% of those who entered the country illegally. An estimated 400,000 Ethiopians believed to be living in Saudi Arabia. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Undocumented Ethiopian migrants who are being forcibly deported from Saudi Arabia by the thousands in a new crackdown say they were mistreated by authorities while detained. In interviews with The Associated […]
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BY FAUSTO BILOSLAVO | VOX NEWS “At the reception centres I have visited in the past year, at least one third of Eritreans are frauds. The majority of them are Ethiopians from the Tigray region, who speak the same language and have similar somatic traits to our own.”
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BY FELIX HORNE | NEWSWEEK Saudi Arabia has announced plans to expel migrants working or living illegally in the kingdom. Illegal migrants have been ordered to register their intention to leave with the Saudi authorities by August 24 or face detention, fines and eventual deportation.
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BY ELIZA MACKINTOSH | CNN Refugees and migrants hoping to reach oil-rich Gulf countries — many of them teenagers — are increasingly traversing a dangerous sea route to Yemen, despite the conflict raging there. The flow of migrants crossing a small sea passage from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, which has continued unabated for […]
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