Aden, Dec 2, 2025 (AFP) - 'No work, no money': Somali migrants in Yemen long to return home

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2025-12-02
In makeshift homes lacking even the most basic necessities surrounded by piles of rubbish and flanked by dirt roads, thousands of Somalis in Yemen live in soul-crushing poverty in Aden's "Little Mogadishu". Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country, is not a destination in itself for migrants but a way station for those leaving East Africa in the hopes of reaching the oil-rich Gulf states and working in construction or as domestic staff. But......
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