14:05 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNearly 2,000 Ethiopian migrants trapped in violence-hit Yemen are being evacuated, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.<\/p>\n
It said it had so far flown out 275 Ethiopians, some of whom had gun-shot wounds.<\/p>\n
Yemen has been hit by months of instability, caused by the president’s refusal to bow to opposition demands to quit.<\/p>\n
Two Somali migrants were killed in the capital, Sanaa, last month.<\/p>\n
Yemen has long been a major transit point for illegal migration from the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n
The IOM said human traffickers were exploiting the instability in Yemen, bringing more migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia to Yemen.<\/p>\n
The UN estimates that 37,000 Ethiopians and Somalis have been brought to Yemen so far this year.<\/p>\n
They hoped to travel to countries such as Saudi Arabia, but many have been stranded at a camp on the Yemen side of the border.<\/p>\n
‘Raped’<\/span><\/p>\nAn evacuated Ethiopian, who wanted to be identified only by his first name, Edris, told the BBC he had been traumatised by his experiences at the hands of the traffickers.<\/p>\n
“I escaped from the centre where the traffickers had gathered us all, controlling and abusing women,” he told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.<\/p>\n
“I saw women being raped by up to eight men. Even men were not spared from rape.”<\/p>\n
The IOM said of the 275 Ethiopians it had evacuated, 34 were women and 115 were children.<\/p>\n
It said it intended to evacuate another 1,900 Ethiopians stranded on the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border.<\/p>\n
Analysts say Yemen is on the brink of a civil war as rival political, ethnic and religious groups fight for power.<\/p>\n
President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded in a mortar attack on his compound in Sanaa earlier this month.<\/p>\n
He was rushed to Saudi Arabia for treatment, and has not returned to Yemen.<\/p>\n
He has been in power for more than 30 years, insisting that he will not yield to opposition demands to resign.<\/p>\n
The US also fears that al-Qaeda is exploiting the political vacuum in Yemen to strengthen its influence in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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