July 19, 2010 -- Yemen said Sunday it will deport about 63 Ethiopian illegal immigrants to their home country in a week, reports People Daily.

The Ethiopians, all of them women, are now in the custody of the Immigration and Nationality Passports Authority in Taiz Province near western Red Sea, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry.

Necessary arrangements have been made for the deportation, it added.

So far this year Yemen has deported more than one thousand Ethiopian illegal immigrants.

Source: People Daily