IOM: More than 1,900 African migrants returned home in October

More than 1,900 African migrants stranded in Yemen returned home via boat trips last October.

The International Organization for Migration said in its monthly report that it had monitored the return of 1,910 African migrants stranded in Yemen to their countries during last October.

The report added that the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen forced these migrants to make the "difficult decision" to return to their countries of origin in the Horn of Africa, either voluntarily or organized by government authorities.

The Displacement Tracking Matrix ( DTM ) in Yemen indicated that 87% of the total migrants who returned last month were men, while women represented 11%, compared to 2% children.

Among the returnees, the report indicated that the Displacement Tracking Matrix team in Djibouti recorded the arrival of a total of 1,561 migrants (94% men, 5% women, and 1% children) in Djibouti on boat trips.

Every year, tens of thousands of African migrants, most of them from Ethiopia and Somalia, enter Yemen via the coast to move to the Gulf countries with the aim of improving their living conditions. Thousands of them are stranded in Yemen every year in difficult health and living conditions due to the war that the country has been witnessing for ten years.