They dream of reaching Saudi Arabia, and earning enough to escape poverty by working as laborers, housekeepers, servants, construction workers and drivers.
The 22-year-old Ibrahim had never been able to find a job. His father died when his mother was pregnant with him — she told him stories of how his father went off to war and never returned. He had left behind a wife, nine sons and a daughter. His wife cares for his elderly father. The children work the farm growing vegetables, but harvests are unpredictable: “If there’s no rain, there’s nothing.”
One young man, Korram Gabra, worked up the nerve to call home to ask his father for the equivalent of $200 for the crossing and the Yemen leg of the trip. It would be his first time talking with his father since he sneaked away from home in the night. Isolated in Somalia’s deserts, the town is the hub for traffickers transporting Ethiopians to Yemen. It is also a center for brutal torture, according to multiple migrants. The smugglers took Ibrahim and other migrants to a compound, stripped him and tied him dangling from a wooden rafter. They splashed cold water on him and flogged him.
“I felt trapped, couldn’t breathe, or move for many hours until my body became stiff,” he said. “God forbid, it was a terrible thing.” Another patrol found 100 migrants, including women, hidden on a farm, the official said. The patrol brought them food, he said, but then had to leave them. Upon landing in Yemen, Nogos had been imprisoned by smugglers. For more than three weeks, they beat him, demanding his family send $500. When he called home, his father curtly refused: “I’m not the one torturing you.”
“I don’t count the days. I don’t distinguish, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday,” he said in audio message to the AP via Whatsapp. He threw himself out of the back of the pick-up, landing in the sand. Scratched and battered, he ran away into the darkness.
I thought they have already migrated to Israel?
*illegal immigrants. Replies are negative & directed towards Saudi?! The country that these illegals come into time & time again, make enough money, illegally, to buy land & support their families. Not the thug smugglers not their impoverished home country!
Long as they don't try come here
Noted. Was waiting for this update.
iRaeDev شف قاموا يمجدون الإثيوبيين اللي يجون تهريب 🤧
This is sad for humanity, we live in a time where millions can actually change the lives of millions, yet we watch in amazement instead of finding a better way. We on earth need a common goal.
How bad does it have to be to actually want to go to Saudi Arabia where they chop peoes heads off. Damn.
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