Since the beginning of this year, Yemen has hosted about 120,000 migrants from the African horn, according to the United Nations.
Despite the persistent war and escalating humanitarian crisis in the country, 2019 has seen a great increase in the number of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants arriving from eastern Africa to Yemen, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator's office in Yemen has said in a report.
Some 120, 680 migrants have entered Yemen since the beginning of this year, the report read.
It is estimated that as much as 270,000 African refugees are living in Yemen, most of them are Ethiopian and Somali nationals.
The migrants are maltreated, blackmailed, raped and killed, first in Somalia and then in Yemen, according to IOM.
Every month, more than 7,000 poor migrants take this dangerous journey, which was undergone by 100,000 people last year, the UN agency added.
Before the war, Yemen did not impose big restrictions on African migrants, many of whom got different jobs and some were settled in this country by the UNHCR and received monthly payments.
Since late April, 5,000 African illegal migrants have been arrested in three sites: two football grounds in Aden and Abyan and a military camp in Lahj, international rights reports have said.
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