09/05/2020
Coronavirus - Somalia: Migrants headed to Arabian Gulf stranded in Somalia as COVID-19 spreads IOM ...
Hundreds of migrants are stranded in Bossaso, Puntland, Somalia, as a result of border and sea-crossing closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Every year scores of migrants, mainly from landlocked Ethiopia, pass through Bossaso seeking to cross the Gulf of Aden to war-torn Yemen, and hoping to proceed onward to Gulf countries, particulary Saudi Arabia. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that one day last month, approximately 600 migrants reached Bossaso in Puntland, in a single day. IOM data show that migration in the Eastern route is still taking place despite the new border restrictions in the region. In comparison to data...
