Yemeni authorities arrested around 771 illegal migrants who infiltrated into the country through the sea in 2014. Chief of the Coast Guard Brigadier General. Ahmed Al-Subhi said the illegal migrants were mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia and arrested at the Makha port and Meyoun island. They included 92 Somalis including 32 women, 574 Ethiopians including 47 women and 185 including 98 women from other African countries, Al-Subhi was quoted as saying by state media. "All migrants were handed to the local concerned authorities and the UN Refugee Office," he said. The Africans' influx adds to the deepening humanitarian situation in Yemen where around 500.000 persons have been internally displaced due to conflicts. According to official reports, Yemen hosts more than one million Africans who have arrived in the past two decades. The UN has recently said the number of African refugees and migrants into Yemen is on the rise. They come to seek a better life for reasons including dehydration and continued violence in Horn of Africa countries and they make it to Yemen because of absence of monitoring on the Somali-Ethiopian border, the UN said. Some use Yemen as a transit way to infiltrate into Gulf states. In recent years, trips of many Africans turned into tragedies after smugglers abused them physically on the border with Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the number of African refugees and migrants including asylum seekers who died while crossing the sea into Yemen increased in 2014. The deaths usually happen when overcrowded boats sink either because of the large numbers onboard or bad weathers. In some cases, human smugglers force Africans to jump in deep waters to the Yemeni coasts so that the smugglers are not spotted by the authorities.