Are more than 17,000 undocumented migrants who each year leave from Somalia and Ethiopia to reach, walking through half a continent, the dream of a better life in South Africa. It refers to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that "forcing tens of thousands of young people based on long and dangerous journey is mainly poverty and conflicts in the Horn of Africa."
According to the UN - the news agency Misna - the ongoing war in Somalia over the past three years has caused 21,000 civilian casualties and more than a half million displaced. "Conflicts such as Somalia, but also the search for greater freedom and autonomy for people in regions like the Ogaden in Ethiopia, are reason enough to push these people to travel," said Tal Raviv, IOM regional representative, according that these migrations are facilitated by the lack of border controls and widespread corruption, which allows you to buy false documents and passages unscathed from one place to another. According to the organization, that illegal immigration into South Africa of nationals from Somalia and Ethiopia is a business that pays more than $ 40 million a year. (R.P.)
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