The desperate journey of Ethiopian migrants to Saudi Arabia | Reporters • FRANCE 24 English

Bienvenue to swap them to reporters here on France 24 in this edition we follow a group of desperate people who are just looking for the things that most of us take for granted a home food water work family there the r-mo people they've left grinding poverty in Ethiopia they're heading towards Saudi Arabia in the belief they can find a good life there there are no guarantees though most of all about their survival on route and as you'll see those who died on the journey are left in makeshift graves on the roadside well the migrants leave Djibouti and cross the Red Sea and region Yemen their problems actually get worse kidnap torture extortion they're all commonplace as they try to cross a war zone this one's by sharp empties and Olivia's Yaba a tragic story but we think an important one for the world to see [Music] [Music] Sivaji sir why do you like a 2006 it johnny-boy [Music] - come on gonna drain you already concur mobile right [Music] [Applause] it's 46 degrees Celsius in gala fee on the border between Ethiopia and Djibouti like every morning groups of migrants make their way through this barren land in the crushing heat their journey has been fraught with obstacles me no go yet no no not you see good one who like you selected oh that's the only one be honest me a little dog and a deer Inuyasha for our victim understand smoothly in a burrow [Applause] and the mobility Alberto knew that already to be aware to be active to dr. Martin Bernama guarana documenting the cotillion damn I owe Guevara Magali hammock really did not match our militia terminal velocity its kingpin gotta distract and occasion of the ride my god oh god maybe to tell whoever soon marina bulky groups of Ethiopian migrants arrive daily in gala fee it's the first stop of their two thousand kilometer journey to Saudi Arabia a perilous Odyssey that will take them across Yemen a country ravaged by civil war I see yeah we have a system normally I know but you're gonna leave Adam like a granola serrano the mugging in yo-yo losing the thing about hanging over my anybody let alone the magazine on Shiraz hugging in Misurata you wouldn't wanna on human pound without American shocker satiny verticillium an employer killed and minor E but a second chance and all the filed ago [Music] these migrants are finally getting some rest after walking for four days straight they managed to rent this plot of land from local farmers and it could be days before they can sleep peacefully again they all belong to the Oromo ethnic group one of the largest in Ethiopia resina is a former trafficker who's helped smuggle thousands of Oromos he says the journey isn't the same for everyone Zuko and Azula le resolution Como's delito Pisgah honorabie souis CPAC recommendation bleach agree Lezama say la la playa de semana y traversal vato y vamos is only known tráfico que hace lo Transpo le Rizzo cosa Sunday Rizzo Desormeaux par control is ogumo no posse de mañana el Supermercado Dipendra de Vecchio ido kosovo traverse appear to section in foggy [Applause] [Music] you know that they just said did he move out - hold on ok t/o the Oromo travel in groups and get to know each other during their journey most of them dropped out of school years ago they're 25 16 or even 12 years old [Music] [Music] many of these migrants have already attempted the journey in the past but failure has not deterred them now they're trying again it's not the first time these men have walked this narrow asphalt road enveloped in a constant whirlwind of dust in passing trucks they feel their exodus won't end until they make it to Saudi Arabia you gladly take down here also I don't think anybody in my mind not so not acid in my Potter series as that gravitons entire opening the tongue green him a lot waha really no Luna Mogollon video EEG tagging human Callaghan whom luminol I don't wanna have to have a telephone I am still no economic yeah I live in Harlem at forgot lucky not cuz up as I'm a tournament win from economic news video cuz I've ridden with Ozzy just with the car but I'm that come with it but I'm not but as you were taken with him Tareq oh she were to completion ananda gandha neither humans wah whereas all use cannibal firstly the kind of but I wasn't as much hundreds of Ethiopians die every year in the Djibouti desert few of those here know of the tragic history of the men and women who walked these roads before them you need the letter P service clobberella t.o.p alleluia men sir - Larabee so did Hillary algae booty-booty Sombra unsharp are the traffic on sir lava sea is a tangelo Amaro piss poor poor traverse a leader through development that on the beaches of Oh balk migrants undertake the perilous crossing from Djibouti to Yemen once the Sun sets they are herded to the coasts every night around a thousand migrants wait in the shadows for the signal to cross many of them grew up in Ethiopia central plains and have never seen the sea Smuggler's have given them almost no information about what lies ahead current news isn't good boom second Luhan Karachi Demetria mica Luhan yard Native American news you know Montana's a new bank elena Hassan Rowhani Ligeti Avenue Raja Yoga Revati a new millennium ad infinitum no your turn Jason [Music] the Oh buck region is the poorest in Djibouti but in the midst of this crushing misery the migration trade is booming smugglers say getting migrants across the Red Sea is the only way they can make a living the traffic on something / le nombre de tete don't to Montreal worried the maximum the person may tsunami the apart bt g paw patrol key prawns so persons suetilley sheren-san second person the risk see see Selena French Mexican Valley risk on Peruvian OPC unless Pacifica the problems you come for visual response a moment only cepes rule [Music] well [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] a unity Danny what trouble turbidity Chinese gravity their own a devil name is Lala new al kinesiology are you vaca-oom de la Rama nama convert education and living in Rhodesia one delegate laughing delegate is ma the longer death more face our image [Music] when they arrived in Yemen migrants step into a different universe governed by tribal rules and far removed from any official authority here the migration trade takes place in the open like in this next to the coastal road [Music] in the dark hours of the night's operations are in full swing a carousel of cars and vans drop off the new arrivals from Ethiopia in some villages there are up to five boats a night each carrying between 1 and 300 migrants walking through this unknown and hostile land the aromas often forced to beg for scraps many of these young men haven't eaten for days hunger and thirst aren't the only dangers with no money or protection they are also easy prey for the local mafias my photo heavily adds nothing of me no holy moly I mean Terry a little phone a lahar Amenas I will ballot in Sehun a goal mocking ha d'etat see what a Mojave you're elected back Leo : yes Emily the motel girl Safina accrued Irina in fatigue a hassle ooh well how do I hide it gives a hoe a book acid a shilling Hodge Von Hamelin harlot Ozzy we mine boom house a lot oh good ha ha ha ha ha ha Ozzy all along the road from Russell era to Aden many Roma migrants have shared stories of being kidnapped blackmailed and tortured Granta barometer I'm I'm Devonian today what you would hardly cry cry cry castle or amo as Kabila means Amon I think after grey yes Laura yes [Music] to avoid the myriad of checkpoints and frontlines scattered across Yemen they have to take the long way around for the vast majority of those who make it to the country's great southern port city the journey ends here they don't have the resources to make it to Saudi Arabia a thousand kilometers away and they've come too far to turn back wandering aimlessly in the streets of Aden these Oromos are condemned to a life of Perpetual exile kind of anomaly how much imitating well yeah well over money even for those few Oromos who make it past Aiden more obstacles lie ahead some have seen their dream collapse at the very last moment many patients in Aidan's hospital or migrants who were injured trying to cross the Saudi border and you got no worry yet taken away variety attack you know your buyer at the corner Jana I see you soon in the one motto condoning what economy very typical Indira Turin Athenian Ida and again Cuauhtemoc rhesus mythical democracy said that a well Duggar time a case everything get re mmm-hmm boy yeah good boy you're a think about us exuded I Somali won't need anything forever your brother on yeah okay I report by sha em tears and oliviers you're bad that's it for this edition you can see it again of course via the website france24 comm thank you for watching and do stay with us [Music] you

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Keywords: Yemen, migrants, human trafficking, Ethiopia, Djibouti, REPORTERS PLUS, france24, news

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Length: 25min 51sec (1551 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 14 2020