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3/12/2012- Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN]
03.12.2012. More youths from the self-declared
republic of Somaliland are illegally migrating from the region, mainly due to a
lack of jobs, traveling through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya on their way to
Europe, say officials.
“There is no exact data, but we estimate
that in the last three months of 2011, only 150 youth [illegally migrated],
compared to this year's last three months, [in which the number was] 300 to 350
persons," Sa'id Omar, youth department director at Somaliland's Ministry
of Youth and Sports, told IRIN.
About
150 Somaliland youths were repatriated back
between January and November 2011, after Ethiopian authorities captured
them along the Ethiopian-Sudan border; by comparison, 200 youths were
repatriated in the first 11 months of 2012, according to Somaliland immigration
officials in the border town of Tog-Wajale, along the Ethiopia-Somaliland
border.
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