Posts Tagged ‘yemen’

Yemen’s ousted president say he seeks exile in Ethiopia : Aides

February 27 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, News, People, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

SANAA, Yemen – Aides to Ali Abdullah Saleh said Monday that the ousted Yemeni president plans to go into exile in Ethiopia, as pressures mounted on him to depart the country for fear of sparking new cycles of violence. The aides said that the former president will leave Yemen within two days along with some of his family members. A diplomat in... Read more

More than 3,000 Ethiopian migrants stuck on Yemeni-Saudi border

September 21 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopian, Middle East, News, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , , , , ,

More than three thousand Ethiopian migrants – who risked their lives leaving the Horn of Africa – find themselves stranded in Yemen, near the Saudi Arabian border. The migrants want to return home, but the International Organization for Migration said it has no money to evacuate them.   Lives at risk The trip to Yemen is perilous. Migrants often... Read more

IOM Resumes Evacuation of Stranded Ethiopian from Yemen

April 17 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, Middle East, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

International Office of Migration is resuming evacuations of irregular Ethiopian migrants stranded in Yemen in appalling conditions. The operation, funded by the UN’s Humanitarian Response Fund in Addis Ababa, plans to help some 2,400 Ethiopians to return home in the coming weeks. A first group of 120, including children and elderly people, are due to arrive in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa,... Read more

Nearly two dozen Ethiopian and Somali migrants died as boats sink off Yemen

April 14 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, Middle East, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

Nearly two dozen migrants fleeing violence in North Africa have drowned after boats carrying them sank in separate incidents. At least 21 Somali and Ethiopian migrants died after a small fishing boat carrying 50 sank off Yemen, an official said on Thursday. Hussein Hajji Ahmed, an official at the Somali embassy in Yemen, told the BBC Somali Service that at... Read more

Ethiopian Deportees from Yemen Arrive Anxious and Unhappy

April 12 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Ethiopian deportees from Middle Eastern countries, 60 of whom came from Yemen, arrived at Bole International Airport on Monday, April 4, 2011, after escaping the economic crisis and political unrest in the region. The returnees, most of them adolescents and young adults, came back to their home country dejected and penniless. Mebrahtab Hagos, 15, was visibly tired upon his return. In... Read more

‘Day of Rage’ draws Yemeni protesters onto streets (video)

February 3 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Economy, Middle East, News, Uncategorized, Video, World Tags: , , , , ,

REUTERS – More than 20,000 Yemenis filled the streets of Sanaa on Thursday for a “Day of Rage” rally, demanding a change in government and saying President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s offer to step down in 2013 was not enough. Further anti-government protests were expected across Yemen, which Saleh has ruled for over three decades, and supporters of... Read more

Most of Ethiopians died from Yemen boat accident

January 6 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, Featured, Middle East, News, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , ,

Yemeni fishermen blamed for the immigrant deaths Yemen’s Coast Guard has so far found the bodies of 28 African migrants, days after two boats carrying about 80 infiltrators, mostly Ethiopians, sank off the country’s coast, a security official said. The bodies were of the migrants onboard the boat that carried 46 people, all Ethiopians, and capsized near the Bab Al-Mandab Straits, the... Read more

Several Ethiopian migrants feared drowned off Yemen coast

January 4 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, Middle East, News, Uncategorized, World Tags: , ,

(CNN) — At least 80 African migrants were feared drowned Monday after their boats capsized off the coast of Yemen, authorities there reported. The two boats sank in separate accidents. One boat, which carried 45 migrants mostly from Ethiopia, capsized in the Red Sea, according to Yemen’s official news agency, SABA. Three people on that boat, believed... Read more

Yemen to deport 63 Ethiopian illegal immigrants

July 19 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , ,

Yemen said Sunday it will deport about 63 Ethiopian illegal immigrants to their home country in a week. The Ethiopians, all of them women, are now in the custody of the Immigration and Nationality Passports Authority in Taiz Province near western Red Sea, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry. Necessary arrangements have been made for... Read more

Yemen arrests 21 Ethiopian Refugges

April 23 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,

SANA’A, April 23 (Saba)- Security authorities have detained 21 infiltrators of Ethiopia, including 8 women, for their entry into the country illegally. In a press release, Interior Ministry said on Friday that the security services arrested the Ethiopians in Taiz province, south Yemen. They are under investigated. Meanwhile, security sources said that 71 would-be refugees of Somalia, including 33 women, had reached... Read more