What a shame. We as a society are rotting alive.
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Djibouti cracks down on illegal immigrants
DJIBOUTI (Reuters) – Djibouti has arrested and repatriated nearly 7,000 immigrants this year, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians, in a crackdown on illegal migration to the Red Sea state, police said on Friday.
Thousands of people in the impoverished Horn of Africa risk death every year trying to cross the shark-invested Red Sea in rickety boats from Djibouti to Yemen, seen as a gateway to wealthier parts of the Middle East and Europe.
Djibouti is one of the closest African countries to Yemen, and is safer than lawless Somalia for migrants from landlocked Ethiopia and the northern parts of Somalia.
“This period is the season to pass through the border because it is the cooler November-to-May season. Otherwise in the summer many immigrants die in the desert from thirst,” Police Lieutenant Abdourahim Ali told Reuters.
The police said 6,723 immigrants mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia have been arrested and sent home this year. Djibouti caught and repatriated 16,091 people in 2007, and 12,579 in 2006.
Earlier this month, at least 53 Somalis drowned off the coast of Yemen while trying to cross from Somalia to the Arabian peninsula.
Near-daily violence in southern Somalia from an Islamist-led insurgency against the Somali government and its Ethiopian allies has displaced hundreds of thousands.
Djiboutian police said a recent surge in violence in Mogadishu had caused increased numbers of would-be migrants to come into Djibouti.
(Reporting by Omar Hassan; Writing by Jack Kimball; Editing by Bryson Hull and Caroline Drees)
4 thoughts on “Even Djibiout is deporting Ethiopian immigrants”
Yigermal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Djibouti, a small country, cannot even adequately feed its own people, and its children are facing malnutrition, so it has the right to deport the desperate Ethiopians and the Somalis back to their homes where they will not be welcomed either by Somali or Ethiopian government. It is, in the first place, their government that allowed them to cross the border and come to Djibouti and from there to go to Yemen. All these regional problems are created by Meles Seitanawi’s invasion of Somalia and by harassing the Oromo, the Amhara, and the Ogaden people, and it is these people, perhaps, are flooding the Djibouti’s street and giving this tiny country a collateral burden. In the long term, America has a moral responsibility to feed these misplaced immigrants from Ethiopia and Somalia for encouraging the Meles regime to continue to intimidate and kill its own people and make them homeless.
I agree with Assta. Djibouti is such a very small country with no known natural resource to beef up its coffers. Even then, this country has bee so magnanimous in providing shelters to millions of desperate Ethiopians for the last 35 years. It had provided ways and means for hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians serving as a stop-over for decades. This flow of humanity did not abate but kept coming in growing numbers to a point that such a small country does not have to capacity to accommodate. And also, these refugees did not flee political persecution. It is mostly for economic reasons. We all hope that things back home will improve both economically and politically. Remember hunger exists in every society.
I like the title of this news. It tells it all. Ethiopians used to be wel come where ever they go. Ofcourse, Djibouti is encouraged by the spineless anti-Ethiopian government in Addis. The old saying: ” Anbesa siarege ye zenbe mechawecha yehonal” is really true.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ER!!!