IOM carries out its first evacuation by boat of Ethiopian migrants stranded in Yemen

IOM evacuated 200 Ethiopian migrants by boat from Yemen, to Djibouti. The evacuation, which took place on Wednesday June 10, involved two boats carrying evacuees to the Djibouti port of Obock. After a 24-hour journey across the Red Sea between Al Hudaydah, in Yemen, and the port of Obock all migrants arriving at the port

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IOM carries out its first evacuation by boat of Ethiopian migrants stranded in Yemen

IOM evacuated 200 Ethiopian migrants by boat from Yemen, to Djibouti. The evacuation, which took place on Wednesday June 10, involved two boats carrying evacuees to the Djibouti port of Obock. After a 24-hour journey across the Red Sea between Al Hudaydah, in Yemen, and the port of Obock all migrants arriving at the port

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Eritrea ‘ruled by fear, not law’

BBC- Migrants from Sub-Saharian areas receive bottles of water on a rescue boat of Italy”s Navy ship San Giorgio after being rescued in open international waters in the Mediterranean Sea between the Italian and the Libyan coasts May 14, 2014. An estimated 5,000 Eritreans flee every month, often attempting to cross the Mediterranean Eritrea’s government

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From Seattle to Saudi Arabia, dangerous myths lure Ethiopian migrants

By Goorish Wibneh Seattle has become one of the preferred destinations for Ethiopian immigrants. Some estimates say there are as many as ten thousand Ethiopians living in the Seattle area. Talking to Ethiopian Americans here in Seattle you might never realize how big the worldwide Ethiopian diaspora is or what people go through to find

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French police clear migrant camps in Paris, Calais

By AFP General view of migrants from Eritrea who stand and sit near tents as they live in a make-shift camp under a metro bridge in Paris, France, May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier Paris (AFP) – French authorities Tuesday cleared hundreds of migrants from two camps, one under a subway bridge in Paris and the

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Saudi shells hit Yemen aid office, killing five Ethiopian Refugees – local official

By Mohammed Ghobari CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official said. Artillery fire and air strikes hit the town of Maydee along Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia in Hajja province, a stronghold of the Iran-allied Houthi

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Ethiopia’s government detains 200 suspected human traffickers, others being sought

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -AP–  An Ethiopian official says 200 human smugglers have been detained as part of the government’s efforts to stem the number of citizens illegally trying to migrate to Europe. Ethiopian Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam told the Ethiopian News Agency late Sunday that the government is looking for 80 other human smugglers

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Ethiopian maid faces execution in Saudi Arabia

Arab News-The Appeals Court in Makkah has ordered the execution of an Ethiopian housemaid for murdering her female employer in the Misan region, 150 km south of Taif, local media reported. The housemaid, 18, confessed to hitting her 50-year-old employer with an ax on the back as she was saying her noon prayer. Her husband

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Ethiopian-Israelis Want Police Officer Who Beat Soldier To Go On Trial

By JTA Ethiopian Israelis clash with police on April 30 in Tel Aviv to protest racism. Ethiopian-Israeli activists called for a police officer caught on camera beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier to be put on trial. At a news conference Sunday in Tel Aviv, the activists also demanded that charges be dropped against protesters arrested in

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