Almost 150,000 migrants, including 100.265 males and 47235 females, mainly from African Horn countries, have arrived in Yemen so far this year, a recent UNHCR report has said.
The United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees said in the report the migrants came from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea besides thousands from other countries including Iraq.
On willing return to refugee homelands, the UNHCR said it had sent back 89 Iraqis and only 3 Ethiopians, however, it says it is about to resume measures to make it easy for those immigrants in Yemen who want to return to their countries.
The UNHCR will renew travel documents of Somali migrants when the situation in their home becomes better to enable them go home.
The UNHCR Clear Borjwa in the country stressed importance of the role the media plays in reminding the people with humane assistance they should provide for refugees and displaced people.
At the opening of a media workshop on refugees and displaced people, she said the media must avoid publishing misinformation about asylum seekers and victims of human trafficking.
The UNHCR praised Yemen's efforts to deal with migrants in its lands, saying it adheres to agreements she signed on the matter.
Migrants, mostly from African Horn countries, arrive in Yemen almost daily, crossing a very dangerous sea where many die when overcrowded boats capsize or when passengers are ordered by smuggling boats owners to swim in deep waters to reach Yemen's coastlines.
Yemen says the number of African migrants who have already reached its territories exceeds 700.000 people, a figure which the UNHRC says is exaggerated.
So far this year, 131 African migrants, mostly from Somalia, drowned while trying to reach Yemeni territories through sea and 66 others went missing, according to the UNHRC.
In addition to economic overburdens migrants lay on Yemen's fragile economy, recent official reports said that African migrants were a key reason behind a surge in AIDS cases in the country.