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Ethiopia: Over 70 Ethiopian Migrants Drown in Yemen
Cameroon Tribune, 9 December 2014
Their boat capsized last weekend after encountering high winds and rough sea. Read more »
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Africa: 70 Ethiopian Migrants Drown Off Yemeni Coast
Guardian, 8 December 2014
Seventy Ethiopian migrants were drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Yemen, local media and authorities said on Monday. Read more »
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East Africa: Yemen Crisis a Boon for People Smugglers
UNIRIN, 20 November 2014
Yemen's security crisis is leading to a rapid expansion in the people smuggling trade, with thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa desperate to use the country as a gateway… Read more »
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Africa: More Asylum-Seekers Died Trying to Reach Yemen in 2014, Than 3 Past Years Combined - UN
UN News, 17 October 2014
More migrants and asylum-seekers are dying in attempts to get to Yemen, mainly from the Horn of Africa, this year than in the last three years combined, the UN refugee agency… Read more »
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Somalia: Somali Migrants Die in Yemen
Shabelle, 29 July 2014
Six Somali nationals among 48 migrants died and more than 10 others sustained serious injuries after explosion hit two minibuses they were travelling with in the outskirts of… Read more »
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East Africa: Scores of Refugees Die in Red Sea
UN News, 6 June 2014
The United Nations refugee agency said today that 62 people are confirmed to have died when their boat foundered while trying to cross the Red Sea from the Horn of Africa to Yemen,… Read more »
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Africa: Refugees Tortured in Yemen - HRW
DW, 26 May 2014
A report by Human Rights Watch claims that African migrants are systematically tortured and persecuted in Yemen. The rights group says the abuses take place in the presence of… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Some Policy Considerations Regarding the Ethiopian Outmigration
Fahamu, 3 April 2014
Ethiopia claims that it has enjoyed double-digit real economic growth for about a decade and that it is a stable nation. But the massive outmigration of its people points to a… Read more »
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Somalia: 115 Ethiopian and Somali Immigrants Arrested While Attempting to Cross Into Yemen
Shabelle, 28 April 2014
SANA'A, April 20--Coastguard and military units on Saturday arrested 115 migrants and refugees traveling in two boats. The detained are from Somalia and Ethiopia. Read more »
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Somalia: Refugees in Yemeni Limbo
UNIRIN, 7 November 2013
It is eight years since Esmahan Abdaqadir Ali left the Somali capital Mogadishu for a new life in Saudi Arabia, and things have not quite turned out as planned. For a start, she… Read more »