IOM ASSISTS 494 ETHIOPIAN MIGRANTS TO RETURN FROM YEMEN AND DJIBOUTI

The International Organization for Migration has assisted 494 Ethiopian migrants to return from Yemen and Djibouti in April alone.
This week, IOM assisted 99 stranded Ethiopian migrants to return from Djibouti and 77 from Yemen via Khartoum, Sudan.

The 77 returnees were evacuated to Ethiopia as IOM resumed humanitarian evacuation of Third Country Nationals (TCNs) out of Yemen on Tuesday 28 April after over a week of suspension announced. But due to aerial bombing of the Sana’a runway after Tuesday’s flight, further flights scheduled for this week are now on hold.
The 99 migrants from Djibouti include 25 Unaccompanied Minors who were stranded on their way to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The migrants who couldn’t make it across Gulf of Aden because of higher fees and the situation in Yemen deteriorating ended up stranded in Obock, Djibouti.