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What Kind of Yemen?
they live in.
The number of those fleeing to neighboring countries due to con-
flicts or poverty is quite large. There are estimated to be 900,000
Yemeni migrants in the Middle East and various African countries and
some 700,000 in Saudi Arabia.
When the civil war in Somalia broke out, some 60,000 Yemenis
returned home, but that was not the sole source of migration to Yemen
from Somalia. The instability in Somalia led to an explosion in the
number of migrants from Yemen to Somalia. Various authorities now
say there are 700,000 Somalis in Yemen.
Ethiopia is another source of migration to Yemen in East Africa.
There are an estimated 10,000 Ethiopians in Yemen. However, it also
needs to be said that these figures are not entirely reliable, since they
are not confirmed by official bodies.
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