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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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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Saudi Arabia beheaded an Eritrean and 4 other foreigners

Saudi Arabia on Monday beheaded five foreigners for murder and robbery, an unusually high number that adds to what Amnesty International has called a “macabre spike” in the kingdom’s executions. Two Yemenis, a Chadian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese were put to death in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the interior ministry said in

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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah dies

BBC- Saudi King Abdullah speaks at his private residence in the Red Sea city of in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 27 June 2014 King Abdullah had been suffering from a lung infection Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has died in hospital, state TV says. The announcement, made early on Friday, said his brother, Salman, had become

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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah dies

BBC- Saudi King Abdullah speaks at his private residence in the Red Sea city of in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 27 June 2014 King Abdullah had been suffering from a lung infection Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has died in hospital, state TV says. The announcement, made early on Friday, said his brother, Salman, had become

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150,000 repatriated from Saudi Arabia, but what next?

FEBRUARY 14, 2014 0 The Saudi government’s crackdown has sent floods of migrant workers home.On a hot afternoon in January, hundreds of young Ethiopians filed out of a parked Saudia airplane and streamed into the international terminal of Addis Ababa’s Bole

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U.S. contributes $2M to Ethiopians deported from Saudi Arabia

Jan. 17, 2014 WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UPI) – The U.S. government announced a $2 million contribution to the International Organization for Migration to help migrants deported from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia. To date some 153,000 Ethiopians, including 8,000, have been returned

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Ethiopian Returnees from Saudi Arabia Top 151,000

By: APO  January 10, 2014  Press Releases GENEVA, Switzerland, January 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Two months after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) started its crackdown on irregular migration, the operation to repatriate Ethiopian irregular migrants from the Kingdom

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