Almost 5,000 Ethiopian migrants are stuck in Yemen while awaiting a chance to return home safely. This week about 300 of them are scheduled to leave Aden for Addis Abeba on two humanitarian flights run by IOM.
Dozens of migrants from Ethiopia were flown home on Tuesday from Yemen. This was the first repatriation flight from the war-torn nation since 2019, according to the IOM.
A boat thought to have been carrying between 160 and 200 people overturned at the weekend off the coast of Yemen. The bodies of 25 migrants have already been recovered and as many as 175 migrants are still missing.
The International Organization for Migration is supporting the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Yemen and said it welcomes the government's decision to also immunize migrants.
The UN migration agency IOM says the death toll has risen to 42 after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti. Sixteen children were among the dead.
At least 39 people have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti in East Africa. The UN migration agency IOM said 16 of the victims were children.
The UN migration agency, regional governments and 38 partner countries have launched an appeal for 99 million dollars in aid for over half a million migrants in the Horn of Africa and Yemen.
IOM UK recently set up an online conference to showcase migrant women's resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference came a week after International Women's Day, and featured five women who had migrated to the UK from various parts of the world.
Houthi rebels in Yemen have admitted that their forces had caused a blaze killing 45 people at a migrant center earlier in March. More than a dozen soldiers and officials will be tried in court.
In Yemen the leader of the Iran-backed Houthi group, which is fighting the government, has expressed "deep regret" over the migrant deaths in a fire last week. He said an investigation is under way, after the UN called for a probe into the incident.
A leader of the migrant community in Yemen has called for an international probe into the deadly fire at a detention center. The blaze had killed at least 44 people, most of them Ethiopian migrants, earlier this month.
More than 170 people are being treated in hospital after a deadly fire which broke out in a migrant detention center in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, claiming at least as many as 30 lives. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is believed that the detainees were being kept in overcrowded and inhumane conditions in the facility.