With the attack on the seat of government in Somalia, the Horn of Africa is again in the spotlight of the world for a few days. Due to armed conflicts and persistent droughts, some 700,000 people have been fleeing the region around Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia for years, largely unnoticed by Europe. Since their target is not the West, they want to go to Saudi Arabia or other Gulf states.
A dusty, sparsely populated street leads past Brico Discount, a hardware store on the southern outskirts of Djibouti. Every now and then trucks or hurried craftsmen in their pick-ups rumble past. There are hardly any pedestrians here in the dusty heat without any shade. Despite this, a lonely woman sits in front of the wall of the hardware store with her child in her arms, a few beggar francs in her hand. Everyone who has arrived here has arrived at the bottom.
Source: Krone
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