Ethiopian Informer
ADDIS ABABA: November 25 (EI) – The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has disclosed its plan to repatriate some 1,300 Ethiopian migrants from Tanzania.
The reported 1,300 Ethiopian nationals would be repatriated from Tanzania as part of an ongoing joint effort with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) officials at the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as saying.
Every year hundreds of desperate Ethiopians are detained in Tanzania while trying to use the East African nation as a transit point to reach their final destination, South Africa.
According to the Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs, human traffickers reportedly use various countries as transit points to smuggle Ethiopians to South Africa, in which traffickers charge an average of 3,500 to 4,000 U.S. dollars to smuggle a single individual from Ethiopia to South Africa.
Meanwhile, the ministry also on Saturday announced that “preparations are underway” to repatriate Ethiopians from war-torn Yemen – a country desperate Ethiopian nationals apply en route to major middle eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia.
