Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
About 500 African migrants have been in custody in Yemen since the beginning of the year in an attempt to sneak into Saudi Arabia. The migrants were in search of greener pastures.
According to the Yemen news agency, most of the detained migrants who crossed the Gulf of Aden are from Somalia, Ethiopia and Chad.
Migrants have embarked on deadly voyages from Somalia through Yemen in search of jobs in recent months, AfricaNews reporter said.
Saudi security forces recently shot an Ethiopian citizen, 30, while he was trying to pass the Yemeni-Saudi border through Haradh area. The man is hospitalized now in the Haradh Hospital.
Yemen officials announced this week that they are deporting 320 Ethiopia migrants including 59 women who entered the country illegally.
About 74,000 migrants from the Horn of Africa used to travel through the Red Sea to Yemen in the last year, which rise to 50% in 2008, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
Hundreds of them have died in recent years as they tried to cross the Gulf of Aden to Yemen.
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