A dangerous road home for Horn of Africa migrants
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COVID-19 is a key factor forcing migrants travelling to Saudi Arabia to make risky journeys home from Yemen.
Migrants are returning for three main reasons: their inability to find work in Yemen, increased human rights abuses in Yemen, and the closure of the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border.
Stephanie Daviot, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) Djibouti representative, said in October 2020 that ‘Migrants are arriving in Djibouti in large numbers from Yemen’ and many more might be waiting to make similar trips. Over 32 000 are stranded in Yemen without access to shelter, water, food or health services.
A dangerous road home for Horn of Africa migrants
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Migrants are returning for three main reasons: their inability to find work in Yemen, increased human rights abuses in Yemen, and the closure of the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border.
Stephanie Daviot, the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) Djibouti representative, said in October 2020 that ‘Migrants are arriving in Djibouti in large numbers from Yemen’ and many more might be waiting to make similar trips. Over 32 000 are stranded in Yemen without access to shelter, water, food or health services.
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Migrants sit outside the temporary migrants center upon crossing the border fence at Spain s North African enclave of Melilla, Spain, 19 January 2021. - Reuters
COVID-19 is a key factor forcing migrants travelling to Saudi Arabia to make risky journeys home from Yemen.
Migrants are returning for three main reasons: their inability to find work in Yemen, increased human rights abuses in Yemen, and the closure of the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border.
Stephanie Daviot, the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) Djibouti representative, said in October 2020 that ‘Migrants are arriving in Djibouti in large numbers from Yemen’ and many more might be waiting to make similar trips. Over 32 000 are stranded in Yemen without access to shelter, water, food or health services.
For a long time, the Eastern Route between the Gulf states via Yemen and the Horn of Africa has been used mainly by Yemenis fleeing the war in their country. Since the first half of 2020, however, African migrants in Yemen have been using this route each paying smugglers $300 to get home to the Horn via Djibouti.
Migrants are returning for three main reasons: their inability to find work in Yemen, increased human rights abuses in Yemen, and the closure of the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border.
Stephanie Daviot, the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) Djibouti representative, said in October 2020 that “Migrants are arriving in Djibouti in large numbers from Yemen” and many more might be waiting to make similar trips. Over 32,000 are stranded in Yemen without access to shelter, water, food or health services.