Hundreds of Ethiopia migrants in the Somalia's self-declared autonomous state of Puntland were sent back to their home, officials said.
Maher Ahmed, senior operations and programme manager with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that more than 490 Ethiopia migrants have been repatriated to their country.
12 flights had been chartered while IOM was providing airport assistance in Bosasso and Ethiopia, Ahmed told IRIN. Officials said these are people who decided to return home. "We will provide them with US$30 for transport to their home areas and, once there, give them a reintegration package," Ahmed said.The adults are given $260 while the younger got $110 as part of the reintegration package.
Reports said that 90% percent of those repatriated were women and children.
Mohamud Jama Muse, director of the Migration Response Centre (MRC) in Bosasso, Puntland's commercial town said that the agency registered another 1,200 Ethiopians who wanted to return home.
Thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis were in Bosasso, with the plan of crossing into Yemen or to find job in the town but mostly unable to cross to Yemen or find work in Puntland.
About 74,000 migrants from the Horn of Africa used to travel to the Red Sea to Yemen in the last year, which rise 50% in 2008, according to the UN Refugee Agency.The number of Somali migrants remained same in 2008 and 2009 but the migrants from Ethiopia increased to 42,000 in 2009. 5,032 migrants have crossed in the Red sea to Yemen while four have died in the newly year of 2010.The crisis and poverty were forcing Somalis and Ethiopians to carry out dangerous journeys to better places.The fighting in Somalia has killed over 19,000 Somalis since 2007 and displaced another 1.5 million while southern Ethiopia is also mired rebellions against the Ethiopian government.
12 flights had been chartered while IOM was providing airport assistance in Bosasso and Ethiopia, Ahmed told IRIN. Officials said these are people who decided to return home. "We will provide them with US$30 for transport to their home areas and, once there, give them a reintegration package," Ahmed said.The adults are given $260 while the younger got $110 as part of the reintegration package.
Reports said that 90% percent of those repatriated were women and children.
Mohamud Jama Muse, director of the Migration Response Centre (MRC) in Bosasso, Puntland's commercial town said that the agency registered another 1,200 Ethiopians who wanted to return home.
Thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis were in Bosasso, with the plan of crossing into Yemen or to find job in the town but mostly unable to cross to Yemen or find work in Puntland.
About 74,000 migrants from the Horn of Africa used to travel to the Red Sea to Yemen in the last year, which rise 50% in 2008, according to the UN Refugee Agency.The number of Somali migrants remained same in 2008 and 2009 but the migrants from Ethiopia increased to 42,000 in 2009. 5,032 migrants have crossed in the Red sea to Yemen while four have died in the newly year of 2010.The crisis and poverty were forcing Somalis and Ethiopians to carry out dangerous journeys to better places.The fighting in Somalia has killed over 19,000 Somalis since 2007 and displaced another 1.5 million while southern Ethiopia is also mired rebellions against the Ethiopian government.
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