Ethiopia Migrants Archives

Ethiopia Urges Illegal Workers in Saudi Arabia to Come Home

July 25, 2017July 25, 2017TesfaNews55 Comments

So far only 60,000 out of the estimated 400,000 Ethiopians returned back BY BBC NEWS Ethiopia says that only a fraction of its citizens working illegally in Saudi Arabia have returned home before today’s amnesty deadline. In March, the Gulf state said that those without papers would not be arrested if they left within 90 […]

In Rural Ethiopia, All Talk of Fleeing to Europe: ‘Here we have no hope’

February 26, 2017February 27, 2017TesfaNews41 Comments

By Enrico Corporal, A soldier chews on a leaf of khat, a mild stimulant, and spits it on the ground. “Hey you, ferenji, how much do you want to take me with you to Italy?” he asks me, laughing with his comrade. Ferenji means stranger in Amharic, Ethiopia’s official language. In the small, far-flung town […]