Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AP) – When the 19-year-old Nigus Yosef told his parents to leave in the Ethiopia region, and tried to arrive in Saudi Arabia, they begged him not to go.
Their two children were already making falling, with the Gulf of Aden and then. The YoseF brother now is in prison at Yemen to enter this country illegally. His sister did in Saudi Arabia, and illegally, which means it will be difficult for her to go.
On August 3, 2025, Joseph and five friends from his town Adi Qei qiyiy boarded a ferry arrested for Yemen. That night, it was covered. Only 56 people of about 200 survivors. Josef was not one of them.
“Her parents are afraid and sadness,” Dictionaries said, Redae Sarhe, in a telephone conversation. “They are not able to express their sadness.”
Nigus Yosef is one of the 132 lost in the boat that riding this month; One of many people from African countries are lost on a new life trip.
FREAD trip by accident
Families who left them know that high conflicts of evil. Boats are often crowded, can’t tolerate severe sea. He had been in a dry land, than other dangers. Emigrants are at risk, with few resources or protection, they make them victims of traffickers and kidnapers.
Senait Tadesse says his 27-year-old daughter made it a Yemen, only being caught by Tadesse, looking for a US $ 6,000 ransom to release his only child.
Tadesse said in a conversation and a decorative machine in the capital, Addis Ababa, that he sold his car and all his jewelry to raise money and put money into an Ethiopian bank account.
But the kidnappers want more. He sold all his belongings; They still wanted more. Not knowing what else should be done, he went to the police, armed with the local bank account number they used.
At that time, he was on Facebook, trying to find the news of his daughter. Finally, the post from the survivor confirmed that Tadesse’s daughter was killed. So far, no one has been made.
Driven by despair
Although Ethiopia has been on strike as a war in the Tigray region in the province ended 2022, youth unemployment is high and there is still military packs.
“Many youths do not see the future within a nation that does not appear in its needs,” explains the rights of Ethiopia’s rights. “The motive for the migration is a lack of economic opportunities and conflicting conflicts.
The war in Tigray was the reason the Nigus Yosef has never finished school. When the dispute began in 2020, he was in the 7th grade, and he stopped joining equitable armed forces. When the trader was signed in 2022, he returned home, but he failed to find work. Three years later, he had despair.
Citizens in the region say smugglers catch in this despair, and that their networks enter until they reach remote homes.
Edenic Eden was 13 years old when he left Adi qii qiyeiy with his friends. His parents said he was created by smugglers during the city’s community market, and that they assured him to go with a group. Her parents did not hear her until one of the other migrants called them to Wa Limat, near the Ethiopia-Djibouti border. News have left them sick with anxiety.
After the boat came in, the relative of one survivor was able to send a voice message to them from Saudi Arabia for the Moma messaging app. For six young people who leave Adiii QEIPHIH, only pairs survivors.
“His mother was sad,” to Eden’s Father, fleet, Tenzema Handush, told them the associated media. “The pain is really strong.”
Ethiopia releases warning
In response to the latest disaster, the Ethiopian Government issued hopelessly “not to take an illegal resources,” and “avoid trades’ services,” while encouraging the people to “pursue legal methods for opportunities. “
But Girigrarche Adujna, an Ethiopian immigration and African horn, points out that legal stations are slow and time-consuming. “Passports are difficult to find due to increased costs,” he said. “Teens often have little or no access to legal migrations, leading to illegal methods.”
More than 1,1 million Ethiopians are divided as immigrants to leave their country and lived overseas in 2024, from 200,000 in 2010, according to the number of the United Nations.
Despite the Yemen civil war, the number of migrants arrived at 37,000 to 921 to 90,000 years ago, international migration agency, or Iom, said last month.
Access to Yemen, migrants are taken by often risked traffickers, full boats across the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden. The IOM said at least 1,860 people were killed or disappeared on the road, including 480 drowners.
Eden Provyi Huash Shumbihi of Eden Telezi Adwish Havembiow of Edevinish says: “Our youths die because of this dangerous immigration. When will this disaster end? “
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The Associated Press Pressor Kazled Kazled Kazled in Nairobi, Kenya had an impact on this report.
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