Yemeni People Traffickers Prey on Ethiopia Migrants Seeking Work

By William Davison Bloomberg Ethiopian immigrants wait near Obok, north of Djibouti’s capital, for smugglers’ boats to cross the Gulf of Aden into Yemen. Numbers traveling across the Gulf of Aden have risen this year even after Saudi Arabia, the intended destination for many, began mass deportations of unregistered employees. Photographer: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty

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Ethiopian Woman Beaten, Raped, Threatened By An Egyptian

Arab Times A25-year old Ethiopian woman filed a case at Abu Halifa Police Station against an Egyptian expatriate who attacked and raped her, and threatened to kill her if she reported to the police, reports Al-Seyassah daily. According to security sources, the Egyptian expatriate forced the victim into his flat, after which he beat her

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Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan ‘to free’ death row woman

BBC Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag pictured on her wedding day with her husband Daniel Wani Meriam Ibrahim has been sentenced to 100 lashes as well as death by hanging Sudanese authorities are to free a woman who was sentenced to death for having abandoned the Islamic faith, a foreign ministry official says. Meriam Ibrahim, who

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Ethiopian woman sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan gives birth in prison

By Joshua Rhett Miller A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith has given birth in prison, and could now be lashed 100 times — even as she’s permitted to nurse her newborn for two years before the execution is carried out. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, gave birth to a

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Ethiopian maid saves employer’s drowning son in Saudi Arabia

Emirates247 An Ethiopian housemaid saved the life of her employer’s eight-year-old son after he nearly drowned in a swimming pool in the Gulf kingdom, prompting his father to reward her, a newspaper reported on Monday. The boy was with his parents at a public rest house in the capital Riyadh when he slipped and fell

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Ethiopian Migrants Held at ‘Torture Camps’ in Yemen

Human Rights Watch (Sanaa, May 25, 2014) – Traffickers in Yemen hold African migrants in detention camps, torturing them to extort payment from their families, with the complicity of local officials, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Sometimes the torture ends in death. The Yemeni government should vigorously investigate and prosecute human

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Four suffer burns in ‘maid attack’  

MENAFN – Arab News - (MENAFN – Arab News) An ethiopian housemaid has been arrested for allegedly pouring boiling cooking oil on four members of a saudi family in the town of dawadmi in riyadh. the man and his wife suffered first-degree burns. the two children’s injuries are not serious local media reported on friday.

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Ethiopian school in Saudi Arabia holds Expo 2014

Arab News RIYADH: RODOLFO C. ESTIMO JR. ROARING SUCCESS: Aman Hussain Yusuf, EISR chairman, cuts the ceremonial ribbon. (AN photo) The Ethiopian International School in Riyadh (EISR) celebrated recently Expo 2014 as part of the school children’s activities this year. For the school children and teachers who supervised the preparations, it was a memorable event

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IOM Helps 220 Jailed Ethiopian Migrants Return Home from Tanzania

By: APO Press Releases GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has begun an operation to allow 220 Ethiopian irregular migrants held in six Tanzanian prisons to return home. The project, carried out in close cooperation with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is funded by

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