{"id":5957,"date":"2013-12-03T11:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:17:16","slug":"the-number-of-ethiopians-returning-from-saudi-arabia-could-reach-100000-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/5957","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopians Returning from Saudi Arabia may Reach 100,000 &#8211; MFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ethiopians-deported-from-saudi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5958\" alt=\"ethiopians deported from saudi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ethiopians-deported-from-saudi.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the projected number of migrants being deported from Saudi Arabia has more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokesman Dina Mufti told Sudan Tribune: &#8220;Although we first projected to bring back home [a] maximum [of] 30,000 [people,\u00a0the number of ] citizens seeking return is increasing. &#8230;The number of Ethiopians flown home has so far reached 70,000 since Ethiopia began the repatriation operation on November 13th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the ongoing mass airlift continues at this pace, the number of returnees could reach 100,000 in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the projected number of migrants being deported from Saudi Arabia has more than doubled. Foreign Ministry spokesman Dina Mufti told Sudan Tribune: &#8220;Although we first projected to bring back home [a] maximum<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/5957\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}