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Over 100,000 Ethiopian migrants return home this yr: IOM

By IANS | Updated: December 30, 2022 10:45 IST

Addis Ababa, Dec 30 The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said more than 100,000 Ethiopian migrants have ...

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Addis Ababa, Dec 30 The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said more than 100,000 Ethiopian migrants have returned from abroad during the first 10 months of 2022.

Between January and October 2022, IOM registered over 100,000 returning migrants to Ethiopia, with the majority more than 71,000 coming from Saudi Arabia, the UN migration agency said in its latest Ethiopia Crisis Response Plan.

"The alarming number of migrants arrive destitute and with serious medical and psychiatric conditions which challenge the local capacities," Xinhua news agency quoted the IOM as saying.

It said the conflict in northern Ethiopia has made the situation of migrants even more precarious, with returns to home communities made impossible and migrants becoming stranded.

According to the UN migration agency, approximately one-third of all returns from Saudi Arabia originate from areas devastated by conflict.

Noting that the eastern African country is an important departure, transit and destination country for mixed migration flows in the Horn of Africa, the IOM said hundreds of thousands of Ethiop, primarily youth, migrate toward the Middle East, South Africa, and Europe every year.

It said forced migration due to climate change has worsened in recent years, exposing vulnerable populations to trafficking in persons and other forms of exploitation.

Desperate Ethiopian migrants, who attempt to cross the dangerous Red Sea route via the neighbouring nation Djibouti, often endure deadly incidents along the Red Sea as well as imprisonment and killings in Yemen.

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