Migrants from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia risk drowning, extortion and violence
, before the desert and the sea, before the beatings and the body, all he had was a phone number. Abdro was working on a building site in Ethiopia when another labourer told him how to contact a, a broker, who could get him to Saudi Arabia. He was 19 years old, with an ailing father, seven siblings and no prospects, so he made plans to leave.
Abdro followed the well-trodden trail from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian peninsula, dreaming of a better life. Last year the) counted migrants crossing borders, generally irregularly, 380,000 times along this Eastern Corridor, including more than 96,000 arrivals on the Yemeni coast. Migrants often encounter extraordinary levels of exploitation and violence, their quiet courage unnoticed.
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