💭My Note: It’s amazing. It took them twenty-two years to catch this criminal?! Even in South Africa?! Well, better late than never!
The United States, which was willing to offer a reward of five million dollars, supports Isaias Afwerki/Abdella-Hassan, Left Revolutionist Ahmed Ali, Debre Zion and their allies, who massacred more than one million Christian Ethiopians, and wants to free them from their crimes. The same monsters who massacred more than a million innocents in Ethiopia – worse than Rwanda – are living in Addis Ababa, Asmara and Mekelle. European, American and Asian authorities visit and reward these criminals officially. Isn’t it because they all had planned this genocide and carried out the horrendous massacres together?! The evil world turned upside down!
💭 Fulgence Kayishema, a former police officer accused of ordering the killing of some 2,000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge in a church during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, a UN war crimes tribunal and South African police said on Thursday.
Fulgence Kayishema was arrested on Wednesday in South Africa, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), which was set up by the United Nations, said.
Kayishema, who is believed to be in his early 60s, had assumed a false identity and gone by the name Donatien Nibashumba, South African police added.
He was captured in a joint operation by the tribunal’s fugitive tracking team and South African authorities following an investigation that had tracked him across several African countries, including Mozambique and Eswatini, since his indictment in 2001.
The United States had offered a $5 million (£4 million) reward for information leading to Kayishema’s arrest through its Rewards for Justice program. He was eventually captured at a vineyard in Paarl, a small town in a wine-making region about 30 miles east of Cape Town.
More than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda’s genocide, which took place over the course of three months in 1994.
💭 Between November 2020 and September 2021 the Ishmailites Arab Emiratis used Chinese drones to massacre hundreds of thousands of ancient Orthodox Christians of Ethiopian with the blessing of the United States.
For many decades, even the hypocritical international community, including the UN, has been deeply concerned by the rampant, systematic violence and atrocities committed by the Eritrean government, which is regarded as one of the most repressive regimes with its human rights and corruption records being among the worst in the world (Human Rights Watch and Transparency International, 2021). These include arbitrary arrests and incommunicado detentions under extreme punitive conditions, torture and inhuman treatment, enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, and the denial of fair trials, access to justice and due process of law. There are severe restrictions on freedom of movement, peaceful assembly, association, expression, religion or belief (UNHRC, 2021).
From a country with a total population of about 3.5 million, more than 1,800 Eritrean refugees cross the border into eastern Sudan every month (UNHCR, 2020). A previous generation of these people – thousands in number- still lives in the refugee camps in eastern Sudan for the last five decades.
For these elderly Eritreans, like many other younger ones, the haunting memory of their motherland remains a gruesome nightmare – a land and its incubus mnemonics they wish they could forget.
Alongside his evil Oromo counterpart, Abiy Ahmed Ali from Ethiopia dictator and war criminal Isaias Abdella-Hassan Afwerki must be brought to the criminal court to face justice for the atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity his Eritrean troops committed during 2 Years of #TigrayGenocide.
☪ The Chios Massacre : The Worst Atrocity Committed by the Ottoman Turks
The Chios massacre of 1822 was perhaps the worst atrocity committed by the Ottomans against Greeks during the Greek War of Independence.
Approximately three-quarters of the population of 120,000 were killed, enslaved, or died of disease after thousands of Turkish troops landed on the eastern Aegean island to end a rebellion against Ottoman rule.
One of history’s most tragic and comprehensive acts of genocide takes place on the island of Chios in 1822. The Greek War of Independence begins in 1821. But the Orthodox population of peaceful and prosperous Chios, lying just off the coast of Turkey, finds itself caught between the competing nationalist ambitions of the old Turkish Ottoman Empire and the fledgling new state of Greece. A year later, during the Massacres around 20,000 islanders are hanged, butchered, starved or tortured to death. Untold thousands more are raped, deported and enslaved. The Greek word katastrofi – also meaning ‘destruction’ and ‘ruin’ – is usually used to describe these events.
The island itself is devastated In addition to setting fires, the troops were ordered to kill all infants under three years old, all males 12 years and older, and all females 40 and older except those willing to convert to Islam.
Those too old or too young to run for cover in the hills are murdered in their homes while about 15,000 Turkish and Samian troops are killed in clashes. Corpses fill the streets and clog the harbor. When they can find no more Christians to kill, any Christian buildings, farms, churches or monasteries are burnt or destroyed.
However, young women, boys and girls are taken alive for their value as slaves and shipped to the mainland.
Around 2,000 women, children and priests seek sanctuary in the Byzantine Nea Moni monastery in the mountains – founded by Constantine Monamacus in 1042-1048. Eventually the doors to Nea Moni burst open and all inside are slaughtered or burnt alive when the building is set on fire – many of their skulls and bones being displayed to this day at the monastery.
Rather than fall into the hands of the Turks, many women commit mass suicide by jumping from the cliffs with infants in their arms.
Tens of thousands of survivors dispersed throughout Europe to become part of what would become known as the Chian Diaspora.
A horrified Europe responds to the atrocity with shock
During the year 1822, European capitals were inundated with reports about a massacre of the Christian population of Chios. The island, a few kilometres from the mainland of Asia Minor in the eastern Aegean, and the supposed birthplace of the ancient poet Homer, had become the scene of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Greek War of Independence. At the time, Greece belonged to the Ottoman Empire.
The massacre shocked Europe, and protesters highlighted the atrocity with many famous artists dedicating works to this heinous event.
One of the greatest works of the great French painter Eugene Delacroix was a depiction of the Massacre of Chios, the purpose of which was to raise awareness throughout Europe of the horrors and atrocities committed by the Ottomans on the island. Furthermore, Victor Hugo’s poem about the massacre also highlights the brutality suffered at the hands of the Ottomans.
👉 Courtesy: Schoebat.com
💭 My Note: This was STATE TERRORISM and the birthplace of democracy destroyed ….. Orthodox Christian Greeks murdered for their faith. Western Edomite Anglo-Saxons and the French didn’t want to help Greek Christians.
And the History repeats itself now. Day by day same Massacre and killings continue. This hideous massacre on Chios is repeating itself in OUR times,,,,
Since November 4, 2020 The Turks Helped the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia to massacre more than 1 million Orthodox Christians
In the middle ages, Christian Europeans were searching for Prester John in Ethiopia, for their spiritual allies across the Ethiopian Ocean aka Indian Ocean, while anti-christian Europeans and the Ottoman Turks were massacring Christians in the Middle East. In the 16th century these Turks and Europeans ound the Gallas/Oromos and Somalis between Indonesia and Madagascar, moved them north – and settled them in the Horn of Africa. Since then Jihad has been waged again and again against non-Galla-Oromos and ancient Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia. They even were able to wipe out 28 idigeneous Ethiopian tribes completely.
500 years ago the Ottoman Turks, together with the Somalis and Oromos of Africa massacred more than three million African Christians of Ethiopia. 300 years later, the Turks slaughtered as many as 1.5 million Armenians in the #ArmenianGenocide. Today, the Turks massacred Armenians in Azeirbajan, they even travelled accross Africa to work together with their natural allies — Somalis and Oromos– and are again bombing and starving to death millions of ancient African Christians of Ethiopia in the # TigrayGenocide.
😈 The USA (USAID) and the World Food Program (WFP፟) stopped food aid to Tigray, Ethiopia. The covert genocide campaign continues, and now they have decided to punish my people through starvation.
So what we predicted two years ago is not happening?! Isn’t the Nobel Peace Prize a license for genocide?! For these barbarians the blood of over a million Christians is not enough, they want more. So, now they are going for a full extermination. Hunger and diseas have always been their stealth weapons, so, by playing out the same old ‘thesis-antithesis-synthesis’ game the evil and merciless Luciferians will continue blaming and accusing each other until they wipe out what is left of drones and bullets. We have already pointed out; Eritrea’s ELF, Tigray’s TPLF, Oromo’s ONL/Prosperity, Amharas ANDM, ANM, Gurage’s EZEMA, etc. are all barbaric servants of the Luciferians. Isaias Afwerki/Abdella Hasan, Debretsion-Seol, Getachew Reda, Gragn Ahmed Ali, Berhanu Nega, Jawar Mohammed are all CIA and NSA recruits. Our eyes are watching!
All international bodies, including the United Nations move and act according to the German philosopher Georg Hegel’s backward diabolical process; 🔥 “Problem-Response-Solution / Bloom” + “Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis”.
The Luciferians are using ELF + TPLF + OLF/ Prosperity as their puppets. They clandestinly tell or advice them: “You play as if you are enemies and improvise the dramatic fight agaubst each other, and massacre the Orthodox Christians this way, reduce your population, we will indirectly support you. Then talk about ‘Peace and reconciliation’ and negotiate as if nothing happend, act like a peacmaker. We will send you the money and the food. In the midst of the Good Cop – Bad Cop / Hide-and-Seek playing, you will continue the game ‘peacefully’ and hide the money and the food, steal it, we will passively react and by more time, we will make another million Christians end up dying in this form; We will once again humiliate Ethiopia by releasing the pictures that show the children of the people of Christendom starving and naked to the world.
Last year’s Nobel Peace Laureate Abiy Ahmed Ali is blocking this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate’s The World Food Program’s (W E P) food relief in Ethiopia.
💭 The Nobel Peace Prize That Paved the Way for War | NYTimes
❖❖❖[Psalm 83:5-8]❖❖❖ “For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant: The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites; Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.”
What is happening in Ethiopia is a continuation of what happened to ancient Christians in Syria, Iraq and Armenia. It’s Edom + Ishmael vs Jacob. Western Edomites and Eastern Ishmaelites are supporting the cruel Nobel-Winning crypto-Muslim prime minister because they’ve planned to exterminate ancient Christian populations across that region. The Nobel peace prize is now a mark of shame – a license for genocide.
☆ Oslo, 9 October 2020
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Program (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
☆ Tigray, 3 November 2020
When the evil Oromo Prime Minister of ‘Hijacked-Ethiopia’, Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide.
In November 2020, Abiy ordered a military offensive in the northern Tigray region and promised that the conflict would be resolved quickly, but until today he uses hunger as a weapon of war. Three years on, the genocidal Jihad has left over a million Orthodox Christians dead, displaced more than 5 million people from their homes, fueled famine and given rise to a wave of atrocities.
☆ Los Angeles, 8 October 2021
💭 It’s The Weeknd! Superstar Singer Becomes World Food Programme Goodwill AmbassadorRecord-breaking vocalist and songwriter inducted into ‘WFP family’ at special ceremony in Los Angeles.
💭 Nobel Laureate WFP Should Immediately Air Drop Aid to Besieged Tigray, Ethiopia
💭 Let’s Connect the dots…the following individuals and bodies had been ‘randomly and coincidentally’ awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee – four years in a row:
☆ 2019 Nobel Peace Prize to evil Abiy Ahmed Ali for a Pact of War vs Orthodox Ethiopia
☆ 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to WFP in anticipation of the following genocidal war (Nov. 2020) against Orthodox Tigray, Ethiopia
☆ 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Dmitry Muratov of Orthodox Russia in anticipation of the coming war (Feb. 2022) between the two orthodox brothers; Russia-Ukraine
☆ 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to Ales Bialiatski from Belarus and the Russian human rights organisation, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. – in anticipation of the coming nuclear war between the three orthodox brothers; Russia + Ukraine + Belarus
😲 So, isn’t everything clear by now?
💭 Russian Journalist Sells Nobel Medal for $103 Million | ሩሲያዊ ጋዜጠኛ የኖቤል ሽልማቱን በ $103 ሚሊየን ሸጠ | ግራኝስ?
Arabs’ Mortal Hatred And Enslavement Of The Black Race
Dr. Azumah in his book: The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa provides several examples of Islam’s hatred of Blacks. There is the example in the hadith in which an Ethiopian woman laments her racial inferiority to Muhammad, who consoles her by saying, “In Paradise, the whiteness of the Ethiopian will be seen over the stretch of a thousand years.
No nation in Africa has suffered more in the hands of the Arabs than Ethiopia. It has been going on since Arabs first invaded Africa in the 7th century CE. Recently, with Libya supporting the people of Eritrea, they destroyed the basic structure of Ethiopia, to cut her from the sea and weaken this section of Africa, and eventually all of Africa, for further Arabization. They did this mercilessly with religion.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna 980–1037), Arab’s most famous and influential philosopher/scientist in Islam, described Blacks as “people who are by their very nature slaves.” He wrote: “All African women are prostitutes, and the whole race of African men are abeed (slave) stock.” He equated Black people with “rats plaguing the earth.” Ibn Khaldum, an Arab historian stated that “Blacks are characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism,” adding that “they are every where described as stupid.”
Muslim Arab and Persian literature depicts Blacks as “stupid, untruthful, vicious, sexually unbridled, ugly and distorted, excessively merry and easily affected by music and drink.” Nasir al-Din Tusi, a famous Muslim scholar said of Blacks: “The ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro.” Ibn Khaldun, an early Muslim thinker, writes that Blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.”
al-Dimashqi, an Arab pseudo scientist wrote, “the Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun’s heat…..” Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani painted this no less horrid picture of black people, “…..the zanj (the blacks) are overdone until they are burned, so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions…..”
After the Arabs had conquered Egypt and shortly after Muhammad’s death, they began demanding Nubian slaves from the south. This continued for 600 years. Dominated African kingdoms were forced to send on a regular basis, tributes of slaves to the Arab ruler in Cairo. From as early as the 6th century CE, they had developed slavery supply networks out of Africa, from the Sahara to the Red Sea and from Ethiopia, Somalia and East Africa, to feed demands for slaves all over the Islamic world and the Indian Ocean region. The African male slaves were castrated and used as domestic servants or to work the Sahara salt deposits or on farms all over the Islamic world.
The African female servants were continuously raped before being sold to households to be used as sex labour. Of springs from the illicit encounters were largely destroyed as unworthy to live. Between 650 CE and 1905 CE, over 20, 000,000 African slaves had been delivered through the Tans-Sahara route alone to the Islamic world. Dr. John Alembellah Azumah in his book: The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa estimates that over 80 million more died en-route. A text from Dr. Azumah books, provides this quote from a Zanzibar observer about the travails of African slaves en-route to slave markets around the Arabic world.
Arabs did not only start and sell African slaves from the 6th to the 19th century in the Islamic world; they were the principal raiders, merchants and middle men for the Atlantic slave trade. In fact, even now, hundreds of years later, millions of African settler slaves are still being discriminated against and treated as the scum of the earth (untouchables) in Pakistan, India, Iran, Iraq, and all the Muslim states of Asia, the Persian Gulf, and Northern Africa. London Protest Against Slavery in Libya – An Arab Deflecting Blame From Those Arabs Who Are Committing These Crimes – Why was the protest not lead by an African?
Arab enslavement of Black Africans continues to this day in the Muslim world, particularly in the Sudan, Niger, and Mauritania. To admit that it is a mistake would be to admit the fallibility of the Qur’an and bring its divine origin into question. Even today, Muslims act as if Islamic slavery was a favor done to the millions of unfortunate men, women and children who were forcibly uprooted from their native lands and sent to lives of sexual and mental servitude deep in the Islamic world.
Arab imperialism is worse than European imperialism, only that the latter is less subtle and more widespread. Europeans relatively, have some conscience, not much, but they are, at least, slightly more tolerant of dissent than the Arabs. Europeans did not completely destroy African cultures. Our history and religions yes, while our cultures and traditions were largely derided as primitive and banned, ignored or marginalized. In all areas conquered by Islam, the natives lost their ethnic names, religions, and peculiar way of life, to those of their Arab masters. The slaves or the religiously colonized Muslims are left bare, without a past or future of their own, a worse form of slavery and emasculation.
The Arabs stripped Africans totally of everything, their history, religions, cultures, names, languages and traditions. Muslim religion overwhelmed African cultures and traditions wherever they conquered Africa, to the extent that Africans in Arab governed states today, no longer bear their original African names, nor do they remember their history. They cannot even recall that they were Black, independent and thriving communities, before the Arabs colonized them. They cannot imagine that they were the original settlers and masters of the entire Arab world. All African natives in Arab governed countries, think that Allah ordained their inferior status to the Arabs.
Egypt is still so intimidated by its glorious Black African past that its Arab government would not allow thorough research into Egypt’s past. President Gamal Abdel Nasser falsified Egyptian history when he declared Egypt an Arab Republic. Anwar Sadat was forced to divorce his Black wife, denounce his Black children and marry a light-skin cousin before becoming Egypt’s President. Egyptian authorities refused to allow American film makers to make a film on the life of Anwar Sadat in Egypt on the ground that the actor chosen for Sadat’s role was Black.
When Morocco left the OAU in 1984, it aspired to become a member of the European Union. In Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Mauritania and the rest of the Arab world, Africans are treated as the scum of the earth. They are second-class citizens at the very best in their own countries. Blacks in these countries cannot aspire to positions of respect or authority. There are hardly Africans in high government positions in Arab governed African countries. Like Brazil, which is just as racially cruel against their Black natives, there is no legislation favoring slavery (except in Mauritania.) It is simply a way of life that’s all. Blacks do not really exist or at best are not humans.
Arabs themselves divide Africa into North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to instigate a division and as long as the invaders continue to occupy our land and treat us as slaves in North Africa, the two segments of the continent cannot cohabit.
The Arab war against Africans and the Arabization of African lands that started in the 7th century CE. Arabs have since settled on one-third of Africa, pushing continuously southwards towards the Atlantic Ocean. Arabs’ racial war against Black Africa started with their occupation and colonization of Egypt between 637 and 642 CE, decimating the Coptic or Black population. Between 642 and 670 CE, more Arab invaders poured into Africa and occupied areas known today as Tunisa, Libya, Algeria and Morocco, where they physically eliminated most of the native (Berber) inhabitants. The Berbers that escaped death ran westwards and southwards towards the Sahara. A traveller in Sudan observed in 1930 that “In the eyes of the Arab rulers of Sudan, the Blackslaves were simply animals given by Allah to make life of Arabs comfortable.” In 1962, the Arab Sudanese General, Hassan Beshir Nasr, while flagging off his troops to the war front against Black Africans in South Sudan, declared: “We don’t want these Blackslaves…….what we want is their land.”
The Arabs that invaded Africa and called Africans slaves in their own God-given land are worse than European colonisers. How ironic, if the Europeans stayed away from Africa, the destructive and cancerous nature of Arabness/Islam would have destroyed African nations by now.
😈 The 2018 Saudi ‘Enslavement and Christian Genocide Pact’, signed by:
☆ Isaias ‘Abdalla-Hassan’ Afewerki of Eritrea
☆ Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia
☆ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
👉 አንድን ሀገር/ሕዝብ ለመቆጣጠር ሉሲፊራውያኑ የሚጠቀሙባቸው መሳሪያዎች፦
– ተስፋ ማስቆረጥ/ሞራል መስበር
– አለመረጋጋትን መፍጠር
– አመፅ መቀስቀስ
– መደበኛነትን/መረጋጋትን ማምጣት
👉 A Luciferian Plan of Controlling a nation by the tools of
– Demoralization
– Destabilization
– Insurgency
– Normalization
😈 Ethiopia recruits 500,000 women for domestic work in Saudi Arabia
Human rights activists have criticised Ethiopia’s continuing recruitment of women for domestic work in Saudi Arabia.
In early March, Hirut* was playing with her toddler at her home in Addis Ababa’s Mekanisa district, when she got a call from an unknown number asking if she wanted to work in the Middle East.
It came as a shock for the 27-year-old, who spent six years as a domestic worker in Kuwait before returning to Ethiopia in 2020.
“I was afraid because I thought they might be human traffickers and wondered how they found my name and number,” she told Al Jazeera.
The callers told Hirut that they were state employees, who had obtained her file from a government database for returnee migrants from the Middle East.
Since the ‘80s, Ethiopians have been flocking to Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait in search of blue-collar jobs, mostly arranged by local Ethiopian recruitment agencies or human traffickers.
This time, the Ethiopian government is overseeing the entire process, including recruitment and advertising.
Administrative documents seen by Al Jazeera reveal plans to recruit as many as half a million women between the ages of 18-40, to send to Saudi Arabia to work as domestic workers.
In early March, notices first began appearing on Facebook and on billboards in Ethiopian towns and cities, urging women to register for employment in Saudi Arabia, at government offices.
Returnees like Hirut who are familiar with the culture and the language are being actively solicited alongside new recruits. In remote areas, public officials, including deputy mayors, are intervening to personally oversee orientation sessions.
“We’re being told that this is an opportunity of a lifetime,” says one recruit attending a session in the northern Amhara region. “I was told that this was a quicker path to success in life than school.”
In a communique, the Amhara region’s East Gojjam district administration said it intended to recruit 13,000 women there.
In early 2020, Saudi Arabia temporarily banned labour migration from Ethiopia to curb the spread of COVID-19. The ban was lifted in February and Ethiopian authorities launched their recruitment drive.
“Due to our country’s strong diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia, job opportunities for 500,000 Ethiopians, including 150,000 from [the Amhara] region have been made available,” Tsehaye Bogale, a communications official in Ethiopia’s Amhara regional administration said in an official communique.
Under the programme, women will board flights paid for by the government. In Saudi Arabia, migrant workers may earn 1,000 riyals monthly (about $266), more than most jobs on offer in Ethiopia where the per capita annual gross domestic product (GDP) was $925 in 2021.
Federal officials are also hailing the programme as a life-saving endeavour, highlighting the dangers Ethiopians face on perilous journeys along migrant corridors through Yemen and Djibouti.
“Ethiopian and Somali migrants en route to Saudi Arabia can be murdered, or die in road accidents in Yemen and are quickly buried with no follow-up,” said Sagal Abas, an activist and humanitarian worker focusing on migration in Yemen and the Horn of Africa.
By removing travel through Yemen from the equation, the Ethiopian government claims that it is containing the danger.
“Our ministry is working to ensure Ethiopians can migrate for work without risking their lives and with their salaries and wellbeing guaranteed,” Amsalu Basha, an official at the Ethiopian Ministry of Labor and Skills explained in a state media broadcast last month.
He clarified that the request for mass deployment of Ethiopian workers came from the Saudi government.
Amsalu also said that 21-day orientation sessions were being given at 77 locations, mostly college campuses, nationwide, to prepare recruits for life in Saudi Arabia.
Ten of the centres are in Addis Ababa, according to the city’s deputy mayor Jantirar Abay. “[The programme] will prove highly beneficial for our economy in addition to creating jobs, as such it requires our utmost dedication,” he told fellow officials in March.
Economic Gains Versus Human and Women’s Rights
Officials have repeatedly suggested that remittances from workers abroad could help with the country’s economic woes, given that a two-year civil war, which ended with a truce last November, has severely affected the Ethiopian economy.
But the state would still be unlikely to reap benefits from the programme, say experts like Ayele Gelan, a research economist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
“Only a small fraction of Ethiopian migrants transfer money through official channels,” he told Al Jazeera. “The bulk of funds end up in the black-market sinkhole.”
Informal migrants account for the largest group of Ethiopian emigrants, but are excluded from official data, according to Ayele who estimates that with proper regulation, total remittance inflows to Ethiopia could have been as high as $6.9bn this year.
Sagal, the activist is simply concerned about the women’s welfare.
“Vulnerable women in Ethiopia are being misled and sold a dream that will risk their lives and anyone can see where this leads,” she said. “Unfortunately, economic gains are being prioritized at the expense of women’s safety and their rights.”
In Addis Ababa, Hirut, despite being unemployed, is unwilling to return to Saudi Arabia for work.
“I went through hell in the Middle East and I won’t go back,” she told Al Jazeera. “My last employer in Kuwait refused to pay me four months of wages. I have no savings and I’m uncertain about tomorrow, but watching my baby boy grow helps me cope with trauma and frees my mind.”
“I’m sad because I feel these women don’t know what awaits them in Saudi Arabia,” she added. “Many will suffer and may even die.”