{"id":6625,"date":"2015-10-22T20:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T20:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.munkhafadat.info\/blog\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2015-10-22T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T20:19:57","slug":"african-dictatorship-fuels-migrant-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/munkhafadat.com\/en\/uncategorized\/african-dictatorship-fuels-migrant-crisis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"African Dictatorship Fuels Migrant Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title single-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.munkhafadat.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thousands-flee-isolated-Eritrea.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6626\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6626\" src=\"http:\/\/en.munkhafadat.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thousands-flee-isolated-Eritrea.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands flee isolated Eritrea\" width=\"749\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"entry-content c5-article-content clearfix\">\n<h3><strong>Thousands flee isolated Eritrea to escape life of conscription and poverty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>ASMARA, Eritrea\u2014On a cool March evening soon after his 16th birthday, Binyam Abraham waited until his mother and young siblings were sleeping and slipped away to begin the long trek toward Eritrea\u2019s southern border.<\/p>\n<p>With his father trapped in open-ended military service that would soon snare him, too, Binyam walked for 19 hours without food or water to reach Ethiopia. He made a choice 5,000 of his countrymen make each month, by a United Nations estimate: to flee Eritrea and brave the world\u2019s deadliest migrant trail, across the Sahara and the Mediterranean to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>They leave behind one of the world\u2019s fastest-emptying nations: a country of about 4.5 million on the Horn of Africa, governed by a secretive dictatorship accused of human-rights violations, that is playing an outsize role in the biggest global migration crisis since World War II.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munkhafadat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BN-KV266_ERITRE_P_20151019201758.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6157\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munkhafadat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BN-KV266_ERITRE_P_20151019201758.jpg?fit=749%2C499\" alt=\"Eritreans at Adi-Harush refuguee camp in Ethiopia watch films and soccer matches, squeezing into a corrugated-steel shack and paying a few cents to a business that popped up to provide the access. PHOTO: NICHOLE SOBECKI FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL\" width=\"748\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eritreans at Adi-Harush refuguee camp in Ethiopia watch films and soccer matches, squeezing into a corrugated-steel shack and paying a few cents to a business that popped up to provide the access. PHOTO: NICHOLE SOBECKI FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t tell my mother before I left, but I didn\u2019t have a choice,\u201d Binyam said, sitting in a mud-brick shack at Adi-Harush, a refugee camp in the foothills of Ethiopia\u2019s Simien Mountains that has become ground zero for Eritrea\u2019s exodus. Flanked by five young friends, all planning to brave the same dangerous journey, he said: \u201cI have to go to Europe so I can help my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attention is focused, amid the intensifying migration crisis, on Syrians fleeing civil war and making a dramatic run to Europe. Yet by some measures, the exodus from the smaller Eritrea is more extreme. From the start of 2012 to the middle of this year, 1 in 50 Eritreans sought asylum in Europe, nearly twice the ratio of Syrians, based on data from the European Union statistical service Eurostat.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. estimates that 400,000 Eritreans\u20149% of the population\u2014have fled in recent years, not counting those who died or were stranded en route.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/eritreans-flee-conscription-and-poverty-adding-to-the-migrant-crisis-in-europe-1445391364\">THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands flee isolated Eritrea to escape life of conscription and poverty ASMARA, Eritrea\u2014On a cool March evening soon after his 16th birthday, Binyam Abraham waited until his mother and young siblings were sleeping and slipped away to begin the long trek toward Eritrea\u2019s southern border. 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