{"id":24363,"date":"2018-12-05T04:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24363"},"modified":"2018-12-05T04:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:22:51","slug":"150000-migrants-arrive-in-yemen-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24363","title":{"rendered":"\u2018150,000 migrants arrive in Yemen in 2018\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nGENEVA:\u00a0A growing number of migrants are flocking to Yemen, even as its dire humanitarian crisis deepens, with nearly 150,000 expected to arrive in the war-ravaged country in 2018, the UN said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\nYemen remains a major stop on the route for migrants from Africa to wealthy Gulf states, and smugglers are taking advantage of the chaos of the war to evade security checks, the International Organization for Migration said.<\/p>\n

\nIt forecast that migrant arrivals to Yemen would swell 50 percent this year compared to the some 100,000 people who arrived in the devastated country in 2017.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe are confident in forecasting migration arrivals to Yemen, a country at war, will reach about 150,000 people this year,\u201d IOM spokesman Joel Millman told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n

\nHe described it as \u201cextraordinary and alarming\u201d that so many people were \u201ccrossing a dangerous war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe country remains on an established route for migrants, who typically first travel by land through Djibouti before eventually undergoing perilous boat journeys across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. From there, they usually try to make their way to other Gulf nations, often in search of work.<\/p>\n

\nIOM estimated that around 92 percent of the migrants who have entered Yemen this year are Ethiopian, while the rest are from Somalia.<\/p>\n

\nAbout 20 percent of the migrants are minors, \u201cand many of them are unaccompanied,\u201d Millman said.<\/p>\n

\nAsked why there would be such a big jump in numbers at a time when Yemen is spiralling ever deeper into despair, he said it appeared smugglers were actually using the conflict and violence \u201cas marketing points.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nSmugglers, he said, promise migrants an easy passage since the authorities are \u201cway too preoccupied with the civil unrest… to properly monitor the borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cOf course once they get there, it is a very different situation. There are minefields to cross, there are exchanges of gunfire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nIOM could not provide numbers on how many migrants have died trying to cross through Yemen, but Millman said 156 sea deaths had been confirmed this year on the various sea passages toward Yemen.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThere is no question (the deaths) are underreported,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nMillman stressed that the migrant crisis in Yemen was \u201can emergency\u201d on a scale that outpaces most large migrant movements in the world.<\/p>\n

\nFor instance, he said, \u201cthe number 150,000 is considerably more, by tens of thousands, than the forecast for all seaborne irregular migration across the Mediterranean this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nIn a bid to address the problem, IOM said it would be hosting a conference on Wednesday in Djibouti, bringing together seven countries \u2014 Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Somalia and Yemen \u2014 aimed to \u201censure urgent enhancements in the management of migratory flows to Yemen and the Gulf countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GENEVA:\u00a0A growing number of migrants are flocking to Yemen, even as its dire humanitarian crisis deepens, with nearly 150,000 expected to arrive in the war-ravaged country in 2018, the UN said Tuesday. Yemen remains a major stop on the route for migrants from Africa to wealthy Gulf states, and smugglers are taking advantage of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}