Some 14,500 people have been ‘hounded, rounded up and sent packing’, the migration agency says
But this spring that traffic came to a grinding halt, as countries closed their borders to contain the virus' spread. Movement restrictions curbed migrant arrivals in Yemen by 90 per cent, IOM reported, while leaving the tens of thousands of Ethiopians in the country trapped in limbo.
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