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Record Number of Ethiopians fled to Yemen in 2009 - Video
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Record Number of Ethiopians fled to Yemen in 2009 - Video
Ethiopian Refugees in Yemen
Record Number of Ethiopians fled to Yemen in 2009 - Video
France24's REPORTERS program today aired a special documentary about refugees fleeing Ethiopia and Somalia to Yemen. The report cited Ethiopia's increasing poverty and the civil war in Somalia for the exodus of record number of refugees crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen to seek for a better life. Watch the documentary below which is mostly about Somali refugees but also talks about Ethiopian refugees who risk of being deported back to Ethiopia if found by authorities.
More than 74,000 Africans, fleeing civil war, political instability, poverty, famine and drought in the Horn of Africa, crossed the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea on smugglers' boats and reached the shores of Yemen this year. This figure represents a staggering 50 per cent increase over last year's 50,000 arrivals, itself a record.
Refugees and migrants make the risky journey under harrowing conditions. In some cases they are beaten, raped, killed or just thrown overboard into the shark-infested waters. In addition, the overloaded and overcrowded boats sometimes capsize, resulting in the drowning of many onboard.
According to the latest UNHCR statistics, at least 309 people drowned or did not survive the trip this year. In 2008, some 590 people died during the crossing. Many more people went missing and are presumed dead. The mixed migration route through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea is presently the busiest and the deadliest one in the world.
Unlike in previous years, Somalis are no longer the majority of arrivals. With nearly 32,000 Somali arrivals this year their number remains steady in comparison to 2008. However, the number of Ethiopians reaching Yemen more than doubled this year to above 42,000.
While virtually all arriving Somalis approach the two, strategically positioned reception centres in Mayfaa and Ahwar, where they receive protection and assistance, only some 9,000 Ethiopians went to these venues this year. Most press on towards the Persian Gulf states in search of job opportunities.
The Mayfaa and Ahwar reception centres are open for all nationalities arriving in Yemen. In addition to provision of temporary shelter and assistance, they offer information and possibilities to apply for asylum and issue passes, valid for 10 days, for onward travel to Sana'a or Aden, where refugee status determination is carried out.
Upon arrival in Yemen, all Somali nationals are automatically recognized as refugees by the Yemeni authorities, under its group recognition policy. Presently, Yemen hosts some 150,000 Somali refugees. Other nationalities, including Ethiopians, wishing to apply for asylum are required to undergo the refugee status determination procedure conducted by UNHCR. The refugee agency believes some Ethiopian arrivals may have avoided approaching the reception centres, fearing arrest and detention as those who do not apply for asylum and are found to be in the country illegally could be deported.
50 comments
Comment from: nardos [Visitor]
Please once let us put aside our outlooks and diffrences and do some thing about it. let us join our ideas and hands to solve this disgrace. one person can do nothing people with experiance come forward and let us do somthing constructive let us for once use this media for somthing that will help our brothers and sisters please let us detach this tag we have behind the name of our country...remember we might have our diffrences but this is for hte young people dying in deserts of somalia, yemen and libiya etc
12/27/09 @ 00:59
Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
I don't believe living in Ethiopia is danger these days.Those people who fled from Ethiopia are their own interests but there is no one forced them to do it so.
I think living and supporting your own government is the best solution than being gerad in Arab cities. Yeha
I think living and supporting your own government is the best solution than being gerad in Arab cities. Yeha
12/27/09 @ 01:21
Comment from: Mengedegnaw [Visitor]
This happens to be the fate of many Ethiopians recently. I would say the number is by far bigger than mentioned. But why? Why do these much people choose to risk their life for a life which can be compered to slavery? It is because the life back home is less than that.
12/27/09 @ 01:24
Comment from: nikodimos [Visitor]
A country where the origin of anicent civilaztion,and the promise land has been rejected by her own citizen because of poverty.I really feel sorry to my fellow ethiopian who risk their life to go to poverish Yemen.One thing that every one of should understand is that we the citizen of Ethiopia has made our country poor. When some body tries to do something we block or resist his effort not to achieve his goal,in short we are jealous people.How shame it is to be called a poor country people,rather than working together we blame one another,hate one another.Please,let come together to help ourself and our country.We have a moral obligation to serve our people and our country.May God bless Ethiopia.
12/27/09 @ 01:24
Comment from: afandi [Visitor] 
i can't judje somalis because of the war. but why the ethiopian's advertised with a poverty,if woyane wouldn't be selfish never sell our land; the farmers wouldn't feed as by now,i know our land is green...death to woyane, from now on i'm ashamedto tell my self im ethiopian
12/27/09 @ 01:49
Comment from: Mesfin [Visitor]
Ethiopian Economy is booming,
11 % growth has been registured.Blah
blah blah.Shame on weyane.Ethiopia
becomes a manufacuring place of
poverty and prostitution thanks to
Weyane.!! shame on Weyanes!!!
12/27/09 @ 02:18
Comment from: kibrom [Visitor]
yeha
"I think living and supporting your own government is the best solution"
so why you live in the u.s, go back and eat your anbeta. And before you judge the poor ethiopians try to figure out their reson, poverity! doma ras weyanne!
c u bye!
"I think living and supporting your own government is the best solution"
so why you live in the u.s, go back and eat your anbeta. And before you judge the poor ethiopians try to figure out their reson, poverity! doma ras weyanne!
c u bye!
12/27/09 @ 03:31
Comment from: Rasputin [Visitor]
According to the UNHCR,these refugees from Ethiopia don't qualified to be considered as a genuine refugees.Unlike the past govt,there is freedom of movement in Ethiopia where a person can go where ever a place he\she wants.
Afandi,
Do you know we are only using 4% of our farm land? I don't see any harm to lease our land for foreign investors.This is exactly what our govt is doing in order to create jobs for the locals.Unfortunately,some people like those mentioned above are leaving the opportunity they have at home to do the worst job in another country.So my friend don't waste your blame for nothing.
Afandi,
Do you know we are only using 4% of our farm land? I don't see any harm to lease our land for foreign investors.This is exactly what our govt is doing in order to create jobs for the locals.Unfortunately,some people like those mentioned above are leaving the opportunity they have at home to do the worst job in another country.So my friend don't waste your blame for nothing.
12/27/09 @ 03:54
Comment from: omo [Visitor]
What is the reason that thousands of Ethiopians abandon their country, risking their lives in treacherous seas and deserts, while the regime back home advertises its economic achievements and we have been reading of a staggering >10% annual growth?
The reality on the ground is that, our young men and women and the most educated part of the Ethiopian society, have no other choice but to flee their country, either to find jobs to improve their economic status or to breathe the air of freedom. Unfortunately, true freedom and prosperity can only exist in ones own country, if that country is free, democratic and there is equal economic opportunity for all, irrespective of ethnic backgrounds or party affiliations.
Economic bonanza in Ethiopia is far from the truth. It is superficial, affecting a small minority of the society, in and around the dictatorial regime. I am sure that the majority of Ethiopians would be satisfied and would stay home, if they could solve their basic needs and feel free and secure in their own country. Therefore, except the very few diaspora Ethiopians, who indulge in crimes and corruptions, for the majority of Ethiopians, it is not a matter of going to El Dorado, but emancipation from domination, suffocation and hopelessness, incurred on our people by TPLF/woyane.
The reality on the ground is that, our young men and women and the most educated part of the Ethiopian society, have no other choice but to flee their country, either to find jobs to improve their economic status or to breathe the air of freedom. Unfortunately, true freedom and prosperity can only exist in ones own country, if that country is free, democratic and there is equal economic opportunity for all, irrespective of ethnic backgrounds or party affiliations.
Economic bonanza in Ethiopia is far from the truth. It is superficial, affecting a small minority of the society, in and around the dictatorial regime. I am sure that the majority of Ethiopians would be satisfied and would stay home, if they could solve their basic needs and feel free and secure in their own country. Therefore, except the very few diaspora Ethiopians, who indulge in crimes and corruptions, for the majority of Ethiopians, it is not a matter of going to El Dorado, but emancipation from domination, suffocation and hopelessness, incurred on our people by TPLF/woyane.
12/27/09 @ 04:45
Comment from: truth [Visitor]
Ethiopians get deported cos it's officially a safe country to work and live. the fact that some people chose to leave their country for perceived better life abroad doesn't say much about the state of ethiopia. I still see Chinese illegal immigrants selling illegal videos and staff like that in London but that doesn't make china poverty stricken country. the Ethiopian immigrant hasn't got a clue about his destination. he thinks Saudi is greener than ethiopia. he didn't listen to his geography teacher at school. you see, that is the whole point, people need to be informed. yes ethiopia still has long way to go, but the truth is, there so much one can do in a sleeping giant ethiopia than risk their life to get to the unknown.
here is Ethiopia the sleeping giant, see what you can do instead of running away.
here is Ethiopia the sleeping giant, see what you can do instead of running away.
12/27/09 @ 05:53
Comment from: Aman [Visitor]
I think they chose the right country but wrong transportation !
1/2million years ago Yemen used to be a state of Ethiopia . The people are nice & their govement good too . I hope somebody might lend hand for those immigrants & I will be a part it . I love yemenies.
1/2million years ago Yemen used to be a state of Ethiopia . The people are nice & their govement good too . I hope somebody might lend hand for those immigrants & I will be a part it . I love yemenies.
12/27/09 @ 05:58
Comment from: ery bekentu [Visitor]
TPLF is enemy of ethiopia and its people.menem aygeremem 94% biseded
mot le TPLF le and zer yekomu leboch
mot le TPLF le and zer yekomu leboch
12/27/09 @ 07:36
Comment from: Tefera [Visitor]
it used to be "Ethiopians fleeing civil war and poverty" now it is "Ethiopians fleeing poverty". one down one to go. but people like Dr. birhanu want to turn the clock back and bring back war and chaos to ethiopia which will lead to millions fleeing and suffering.
12/27/09 @ 08:59
Comment from: YeOromoLij [Visitor]
No son or daughter of Africa should suffer or beg. This should never have happened. We have enough resources to feed everyone and to have left overs for others. Thanks to our stupid leaders and the politicians of the west who don't want to see a better and stronger Africa. I hope I see the time when all this is behind us and we live in plenty and not in want.
12/27/09 @ 09:51
Comment from: Zerayakob Yared [Visitor]
Betraying Tigray, looting Ethiopia and selling African interest in the international arena in order to get every thing to the private pocket!
What good things can you expect from those SIGIBGIB evils !?
ALAMA YELESH YEQEN SERATEGNA BESIRQOSH !
12/27/09 @ 09:52
Comment from: Black boy [Visitor]
Mesfin: visitor
My brother I could not agree with you more
you to the words right out my mouth
......The 5th fastest growing economy in the world.
...$12 billion in foreign investment every year.
...Alamoudi impots $80 million of caterpilla machines for his 250000 hectare farm
Bla bla bla
Yet millions of our people starve and millions have no jobs and thousands of our young sisters flee or are duped into going to the Middle east to become maids / prostitutes
My brother I could not agree with you more
you to the words right out my mouth......The 5th fastest growing economy in the world.
...$12 billion in foreign investment every year.
...Alamoudi impots $80 million of caterpilla machines for his 250000 hectare farm
Bla bla blaYet millions of our people starve and millions have no jobs and thousands of our young sisters flee or are duped into going to the Middle east to become maids / prostitutes
12/27/09 @ 10:02
Comment from: Tadele [Visitor]
Yeha...
May be you are right! You & your TPLF thug's Ethiopia is prospering at the expense of Ethiopian people, that 12% economic growth for the past six years should give citizens access for economic gain,since there is no democratic capitalism in Ethiopia, the economy is controlled by handfull hench men of zenawi to benefit his stoogies, you shameless thug !!, you can joke for now, we know each & every thug in & out side Ethiopia who benefited from this mafia sheme, you will be hunted & forced to return every penny you loot to national treasury.
May be you are right! You & your TPLF thug's Ethiopia is prospering at the expense of Ethiopian people, that 12% economic growth for the past six years should give citizens access for economic gain,since there is no democratic capitalism in Ethiopia, the economy is controlled by handfull hench men of zenawi to benefit his stoogies, you shameless thug !!, you can joke for now, we know each & every thug in & out side Ethiopia who benefited from this mafia sheme, you will be hunted & forced to return every penny you loot to national treasury.
12/27/09 @ 10:38
Comment from: Hannibal [Visitor]
Could there be another explanation other than poverty for the exodus of
Ethiopians to Yemen? May be they end up in Eritrea, like our "Teff", instead of some other Arab countries? Could there be an opposition party behind this exodus? "Most of them do not apply for asylum for fear of deportation"? How about the real reason is a different one - that they do not need to apply for asylum?
Ethiopians to Yemen? May be they end up in Eritrea, like our "Teff", instead of some other Arab countries? Could there be an opposition party behind this exodus? "Most of them do not apply for asylum for fear of deportation"? How about the real reason is a different one - that they do not need to apply for asylum?
12/27/09 @ 10:55
Comment from: Derese [Visitor]
This is the reasult of bad governance and miss management of the national economy.Woyane is not capable of governing Ethiopia but it good in looting.
12/27/09 @ 11:04
Comment from: ethiopia [Visitor]
the worst days are yet to come, all this shows how the woyane government is using all the resources of the country with out any limit and exploiting the ethiopian people, this is undeniable truth, people please don't say that Ethiopia is a democratic nation and weyane is the best government on power,because all the government system is corrupted, their is a big corruption chain and all people who is not in this chain are the one who is taking the consequence, which are the ethiopian people this include all the Ethiopians trapped in all the refugee camps, PLEASE DON'T CONCLUDE WITH OUT SEEING THE FACT,may GOD protect all of them
12/27/09 @ 11:48
Comment from: Tafesse [Visitor]
The question of economic migrants is not new and will probably keep growing in coming years. My problem is, who is going to vote for neftegnas in Addis when all the hoodlums and hooligans have left the country? We must try to stop them, at least until election time. Don't you think?
12/27/09 @ 12:16
Comment from: Shewarega [Visitor]
Wozeiro Condjo, mekegna arogit.
I am not going to give a reply to you, and bore our esteemed bloggers to death. As far as I am concerned, you don't even exist. Please send an e mail to your habibi self. The truth does hurt in deed, ur burning.
I am not going to give a reply to you, and bore our esteemed bloggers to death. As far as I am concerned, you don't even exist. Please send an e mail to your habibi self. The truth does hurt in deed, ur burning.
12/27/09 @ 13:31
Comment from: truth [Visitor]
hey black boy, you must be a black a*ss, just because Alhmoudi imported caterpillar last week it doesn't mean you would have food this week. eat your idiotic argument until harvest time. a*ss hole
12/27/09 @ 14:01
Comment from: FG [Visitor]
Unlike in previous years, Somalis are no longer the majority of arrivals. With nearly 32,000 Somali arrivals this year their number remains steady in comparison to 2008. However, the number of Ethiopians reaching Yemen more than doubled this year to above 42,000.
With the sanction imposed on Eritrea, things are going to get worse to all east African people.
But most of Ethiopian looks very happy at list the stupid once, anyway weak up, we have beautiful land all of us except ugly mind. Please Ethiopians look at you people they leave the country out of hunger and some of you claiming there is a all of growth in the country it is
laughable not only by the western they feed you, it is also laughable by your neighbors. Get act yourself the right thing instead of fill your mind by a prejdios, hatred, and the entire devil thought. I don’t know when you going to learn just claiming empty pride 300 thousand land.
With the sanction imposed on Eritrea, things are going to get worse to all east African people.
But most of Ethiopian looks very happy at list the stupid once, anyway weak up, we have beautiful land all of us except ugly mind. Please Ethiopians look at you people they leave the country out of hunger and some of you claiming there is a all of growth in the country it is
laughable not only by the western they feed you, it is also laughable by your neighbors. Get act yourself the right thing instead of fill your mind by a prejdios, hatred, and the entire devil thought. I don’t know when you going to learn just claiming empty pride 300 thousand land.
12/27/09 @ 14:24
Comment from: chan [Visitor]
Of course the somalies have no choice, and I think that is the best solution.
HOWEVER THE Ethiopians, thy need some job and the bet way to creat job is business and that has to be facilitated by the govermant or any other organization.
HOWEVER THE Ethiopians, thy need some job and the bet way to creat job is business and that has to be facilitated by the govermant or any other organization.
12/27/09 @ 14:32
Comment from: Let's keep watching! [Visitor]
Always, you talk about how many Eritreans are leaving their country wether to Ethiopia or Sudan or else. So, guys what is your answer for this? As the saying goes, what goes around comes around!! Actually, this news is worst of all. Good Luck ppl.
12/27/09 @ 14:45
Comment from: Mammo Kilo [Visitor]
WHO CAN EXPLAIN TO ME THIS ILLOGICAL PHENOMENON? GROWTH AND POVERTY SUPPOSED TO BE INVERSELY RELATED,AREN'T THEY?
12/27/09 @ 14:59
Comment from: Sam [Visitor]
Whether the recent Ethiopian immigrants who flee the country in thousands are economic or political refugees should not be the central question. True, a significant number of them choose to flee to better their economic condition. But their economic condition to be a compelling factor in their search for a better future anywhere but Ethiopia the political leadership must have made their economic situation worse than they could bear. The political leaership in Ethiopia shapes the economic condition. Despite the propaganda that the free market economy is flourshing, there is no an iota of evidence to support that claim. If one takes out from the economic equation Alamudin, there is hardly any private investors to name in the country. The government and government supported endowments run the whole show. After ruling almost for twenty years, EPDRF to become a factory that produces thousands of immigrants who would be treated as inhuman in neighboring countries say alot about the government Ethiopians have had. Imagine this is a peace time in Ethiopia. Even during the Derg time not that many Ethiopians were desperate enough to flee Ethiopia. What is going on here? The government lectures us the economic progress the country keeps registering in sucessive years, but thousands and thousands of Ethiopians, it seems, are becoming "unwilling" to be the beneficiary of that economic progress. There is a disconnect here. There is no disconnect if one tries to untangle the seemingly inconsistency. The reality is today contrary to the government propaganda more Ethiopians than ever before find economic insecurity as something they could do nothing about. Imagine the number of young students who graduate from High School and Universities. There are no new jobs created even for the mere 10 percent of them. The government has the power to change at least to mitigate the situation. Having a liberal free market economy, a rule of law, and political plurality might diminish the number if not altogether eradicate the number of young Ethiopians who seek to flee their country.
12/27/09 @ 15:57
Comment from: Abebe [Visitor]
After one year, 10 thousand Ethiopians will flee to Eritrea becouse Eritrea will be a uniqe nation in Africa bielive or not
12/27/09 @ 17:22
Comment from: Gabriel [Visitor]
This to Trusth,
Where did you learn your geography? Well ethiopia is better in terms of arable lands comparing to Saudi Arabia but make sure that Ethiopia's vast tracts of land is desert too. And make sure Saudi Arabia is potential endowed though desert; oil is thier natural water and the world's number-1 oil producing country. Thousands of Ethiopians make better living and assist their families back home which Woyane.TPLF didnt able to give them that opportunity. In Ethiopia today he one has to be an advocate or member of Woyane to make a living.
I dont think so if you listened what the Journalists said that there is grinding poverty in ethiopia today. If telling the high sky rises owned by a few individuals basically-the elites of 6% of the population may you are among them that's is not an indication of the massses.
Where did you learn your geography? Well ethiopia is better in terms of arable lands comparing to Saudi Arabia but make sure that Ethiopia's vast tracts of land is desert too. And make sure Saudi Arabia is potential endowed though desert; oil is thier natural water and the world's number-1 oil producing country. Thousands of Ethiopians make better living and assist their families back home which Woyane.TPLF didnt able to give them that opportunity. In Ethiopia today he one has to be an advocate or member of Woyane to make a living.
I dont think so if you listened what the Journalists said that there is grinding poverty in ethiopia today. If telling the high sky rises owned by a few individuals basically-the elites of 6% of the population may you are among them that's is not an indication of the massses.
12/27/09 @ 17:42
Comment from: Ambasel [Visitor]
i hope they will survive the desert and get to their destination safe.
12/27/09 @ 17:56
Comment from: Lekim Yewayane Leba [Visitor]
The truth is manifesting itself, as it should....
12% growth my ass
12% growth my ass
12/27/09 @ 19:10
Comment from: Zig [Visitor]
I don't blame them tooooooo many people almost 80 million. Population is growing but the land will not grow Growing. We need to open a pharmactual company to produce bith control pills and teach the population to have small family.
12/27/09 @ 20:12
Comment from: Liar govt [Visitor]
This is a clear evidence to the thug rulers showing people are fleeing Ethiopia instead of die from hunger. Hope makes people live through hard times. Currently, Ethiopians have lost even hope.
The fake 10% economic growth literally should mean the lives of most Ethiopians have improved by 10% from what it was the previous year. But in reality for most Ethiopians life is in its worst shape in the last 20 years. Either the figure is fake or the lives of very few have improved 1000%. I would guess both options are possible but ultimately shows how a pathetic liar the govt of Ethiopia is!
The fake 10% economic growth literally should mean the lives of most Ethiopians have improved by 10% from what it was the previous year. But in reality for most Ethiopians life is in its worst shape in the last 20 years. Either the figure is fake or the lives of very few have improved 1000%. I would guess both options are possible but ultimately shows how a pathetic liar the govt of Ethiopia is!
12/27/09 @ 21:50
Comment from: me [Visitor]
Time is coming soon ,very soon to put all Weyanes leader and their cadres to justice and make a better ethiopia,regain our unity and love,unlike wayaness.
12/27/09 @ 22:18
Comment from: Ethiopian [Visitor]
I want to invite TPLF cadres www.ginbot7.org and Interview with Ato Gebermedehen Areya.
12/27/09 @ 22:40
Comment from: pooh [Visitor]
The yemenies use to come to Ethiopia to make a better living in the past now the trend has reversed and we go there to seek a better life in the poorest Arab country in the world or stop over to continue the journy to the oil reach country. The risk those people take to make their life better by any means shows the failure of the econmic system in Ethiopia. Is it the failure of the current regime or the accumilative effect of the 3000 year old dynasty which made a living by donors money.
12/28/09 @ 00:03
Comment from: horro g. [Visitor]
leaving the green land to desert land never will be a solution .I have had lived half of my life outside of my birthland ethiopia(that time gave me a chance to compare and judje).we have a green land .most of us can agree on that ,so who is to blame for our faliure as a country and as a nation.1-we never had a good leader who led the country with fair mentality for all "ethiopians"as one pp with common interst and goal.2-we always working hard to change the government with out thinking (analizing)what the next gov. come up with.3-we pray too much than we work as a society-(being the religues pp by itself never solve the societies problem with out hard work and sucrifieses).4-family planning-ethiopias' economy could not sustainable with such popullation growth(we must bring the pop-tion growth ratio down.)5-if we study any developed countrys history one generation sucrified fully 4 the next one.we have to adapte that.6-never ever pray or illusion that others cary(SOLVE)ethiopians problem.In generall,lets not blame only the governement but also ourselves as individual and take responsibility for our collective faliure.
12/28/09 @ 01:15
Comment from: De La Manchu [Visitor]
Ethiopia has no shortage of population or man power, so who ever wants to leave, is free to do so. Ethiopians have freedom of movement, peaceful demonstratiion, and all the civil liberties that is enjoyed by a black man any where in the world. It is not the slave plantation of Esayas, where the order is shoot to kill escapes.
Be-eje ye-yazut worqe ende medabe yeqoteral.
Be-eje ye-yazut worqe ende medabe yeqoteral.
12/28/09 @ 01:58
Comment from: ZXAmiche [Visitor]
Did you say, "Shimelba" or "Mayfaa and Ahwar"?
I thought Eritreans were the only refugees that migrate for better living, lol!
May be they were Eritreans using Ethiopian names, lol!
May be they were all somalis, lol!
May be Eritrean refugees were making Drama, like the Tsorona carnage of Ethiopian minesweepers, lol!
Poor Ethiopians, now they would be handed over to Ethiopian minority mafia, thanks to Yemenis, from the Axis of Belligerence, and especially the UN corporation agency of UNHCR double standard policy.
Camp Shimelba, in the poorest region of Ethiopia, Tigray, that cannot even feed its people, where a lot of Tigrigna speaking Tigrai refugees are being exported to the West and fed as Eritreans, was designed by the toothless UN Corporation to sabotage our economic and political progress, inside out. In Shimelba, in desperate attempt to sabotage our economic Marshal Plan, Eritreans were lured to come to Ethiopia, as a false hope of conduit to USA and other Europian countries. Here in Yemen, Mayfaa and Ahwarpoor Somali camps, Ethiopians would be deported, in front of UNHCR indifferent saboteurs, like many previous times before. What a double standard!
If 74,000 Ethiopians, thru shark infested Red Sea have fled to war ravaged and terrorist blank check Yemen in one year, think how many had fled in the last five years alone. And think what would happen when the war stops. And think how many more would be fleeing thru Kenya, down to Southern Africa.
aye yezeTena partywoch ina democracy ager Ethiopia, sintun ayen democracy and development. Diros keUSAid agam yeteTega Kulqual, hule siyaneba yadir yelem inde! So much for the result to your billions of military, diplomatic, financial and servitude alimony of food-aid.
aye "Mama EthioPia", besimish sintu tesera!
I thought Eritreans were the only refugees that migrate for better living, lol!
May be they were Eritreans using Ethiopian names, lol!
May be they were all somalis, lol!
May be Eritrean refugees were making Drama, like the Tsorona carnage of Ethiopian minesweepers, lol!
Poor Ethiopians, now they would be handed over to Ethiopian minority mafia, thanks to Yemenis, from the Axis of Belligerence, and especially the UN corporation agency of UNHCR double standard policy.
Camp Shimelba, in the poorest region of Ethiopia, Tigray, that cannot even feed its people, where a lot of Tigrigna speaking Tigrai refugees are being exported to the West and fed as Eritreans, was designed by the toothless UN Corporation to sabotage our economic and political progress, inside out. In Shimelba, in desperate attempt to sabotage our economic Marshal Plan, Eritreans were lured to come to Ethiopia, as a false hope of conduit to USA and other Europian countries. Here in Yemen, Mayfaa and Ahwarpoor Somali camps, Ethiopians would be deported, in front of UNHCR indifferent saboteurs, like many previous times before. What a double standard!
If 74,000 Ethiopians, thru shark infested Red Sea have fled to war ravaged and terrorist blank check Yemen in one year, think how many had fled in the last five years alone. And think what would happen when the war stops. And think how many more would be fleeing thru Kenya, down to Southern Africa.
aye yezeTena partywoch ina democracy ager Ethiopia, sintun ayen democracy and development. Diros keUSAid agam yeteTega Kulqual, hule siyaneba yadir yelem inde! So much for the result to your billions of military, diplomatic, financial and servitude alimony of food-aid.
aye "Mama EthioPia", besimish sintu tesera!
12/28/09 @ 12:19
Comment from: Helen [Visitor]
Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
of cores there is big problem in the country of no middle classes. The only people who can consider middle class is people who has family member in west not the working people. so
Why did people in Ethiopia are moving out
1. very limited opportunities to continue higher education how money people do continue their higher education after they finish high school? may be 10 or 20% the rest is left over to do what ever.
2. weather you educated or not your pay check never make enough for good living.
3. The basic thing cost are un believable high like food housing and clothing are very expansive to deal with for this young.
I can give you good example when I was in Ethiopia this summer some of my friend was already finish college and working
one was a nurse and another secretary and another marketer...
where do this people live still with their parent how much do they make the 800 - 2000 birr
how much a t-shirt cost 50 beir how much taxi cost 5 birr a day how much lunch cost 15 bierr how much tea cost 2 beirr. so how do people live a month to month life I don't really no but betty hard.
so don't say it is ok to live in Ethiopia while you are living here because there is people who doesn't have one family member out side Ethiopia and struggling to make their day to day life.
of cores there is big problem in the country of no middle classes. The only people who can consider middle class is people who has family member in west not the working people. so
Why did people in Ethiopia are moving out
1. very limited opportunities to continue higher education how money people do continue their higher education after they finish high school? may be 10 or 20% the rest is left over to do what ever.
2. weather you educated or not your pay check never make enough for good living.
3. The basic thing cost are un believable high like food housing and clothing are very expansive to deal with for this young.
I can give you good example when I was in Ethiopia this summer some of my friend was already finish college and working
one was a nurse and another secretary and another marketer...
where do this people live still with their parent how much do they make the 800 - 2000 birr
how much a t-shirt cost 50 beir how much taxi cost 5 birr a day how much lunch cost 15 bierr how much tea cost 2 beirr. so how do people live a month to month life I don't really no but betty hard.
so don't say it is ok to live in Ethiopia while you are living here because there is people who doesn't have one family member out side Ethiopia and struggling to make their day to day life.
12/28/09 @ 13:07
Comment from: Judge Feradge [Visitor]
Now they have an opportunity to fight back and free Yemen from barbaric way of life and reunite Yemen with mother Ethiopia.
12/28/09 @ 23:07
Comment from: mike lagos [Visitor]
This sucks. This country has so much potential. If we could keep these people here.
People leave because in life sometimes you gotta do what u gotta do to survive or uplift yourself.
People leave because in life sometimes you gotta do what u gotta do to survive or uplift yourself.
12/29/09 @ 09:46
Comment from: Seleme [Visitor]
Yeha,
. . .the answer is FAILED GOVERNMENT!!!. . .
there is no TRANSPARENCY so your bigtime looters enjoyed their CORRUPTION activities caused us ENDLESS POVERTY. . .and because of POVERTY they leave our motherland. . .
SHAME ON YOU LOOTERS!!!
12/29/09 @ 11:36
Comment from: Alba [Visitor]
For some reason the Somali muslim women keep on having kids...where are the men who impregnate them? I wonder...
12/29/09 @ 17:21
Comment from: Wurinchilla [Visitor]
What is going on here? Since when is somalis call themselves as ethiopian? These is gross.
12/29/09 @ 17:27
Comment from: tatek [Visitor]
I hope one day we will be great,every one wants Ethiopia;even foreigner too.
12/30/09 @ 22:07
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