The Ethiopian government has revealed that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has donated $100,000 to support efforts to repatriate Ethiopian nationals from Saudi Arabia, following the Saudi government’s directive to expel all illegal immigrants in the oil rich nation.

Since the mass evacuation began in the second week of November, about 100,620 migrants have been repatriated according to Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom. He also revealed that all Ethiopian nationals at evacuation centers in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, have been flown to Ethiopia.