Ethiopia to investigate report of killings in Saudi Arabia

Ethiopian migrants use the migration route across the Gulf of Aden and through Yemen to get to Saudi Arabia. [Reuters]

Ethiopia vowed to launch a joint investigation with Saudi Arabian authorities into a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the kingdom's border guards of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

"The Government of Ethiopia will promptly investigate the incident in tandem with the Saudi authorities," the ministry said on X, formerly known as Twitter, a day after the publication of the HRW report.