Some people trying to flee the war and poverty in Somalia and Ethiopia did not make it out with their lives. The aid agency Medicins Sans Frontieres say 60 corpses have washed onto a Yemen beach in recent days.The people who try to flee, sell all they have to smugglers to give them passage out of the country. If the smugglers fear that they are about to get caught, they spill the people overboard. As this Reuters story from News Australia reports, the smuggling route across the gulf of Arden is a very dangerous one. November 3rd, News AustraliaIn one of two incidents that caused the deaths, smugglers tipped the refugees into the sea at night after noticing lights on land and fearing they would be spotted by the coastguard, MSF quoted survivors as saying."They forced us into the sea, even...
A good story came out overnight about the major aid organizations worldwide and how the credit crisis will effect them. Some groups have already starting cutting back on their efforts, while others don't know yet if it will effect donations. All aid groups agree that this will trickle down to the poor at the bottom. The poor will have less help to fend of malnutrition, disease and more.We boiled down our snippet to the actual reactions from the leaders of top aid organizations. But there is much more in this Associated Press article by Alexander Higgins. We came across the article from the Enquirer Herald website from Eastern New York. Philippe Guiton of World Vision told The Associated Press that his agency plans to cut back hiring, which will have implications for delivering aid to the...
from the BBC Twenty-nine bodies have been found washed up on the beaches of Yemen, Medecins Sans Frontieres says.The medical charity says the people died attempting to cross the sea from Somalia in an effort to escape the country's extreme poverty and warfare.Survivors said the smugglers who transported them stopped the boats off the Yemeni coast and forced them to swim to the shore at gunpoint.On Tuesday, the UN warned that the number of Somalis fleeing was rising.The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that 59 boats brought more than 1,700 people to Yemen last month - almost triple the number for the same period last year.So far this year, the agency says more than 24,000 people have made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden.'Children overboard'According to a 23-year-old Somali...