Starvation and drowning on the deadly Horn of Africa migrant route
On a vast, sun-scorched plain in Djibouti, dozens of men made the dayslong trek home after their plan failed to cross one of the world's deadliest migration routes from Africa to the Gulf.Their faces drawn, their bodies emaciated, some had not eaten in days. A few withered acacia trees offer the only occasional shade in Djibouti's April "winter," when temperatures still hit 35 C.Jemal Ibrahim Hassan hoped to find work in one of the wealthy Gulf monarchies by traveling from Djibouti on the Horn of Africa to Yemen across the narrow but deadly Bab-el-Mandab Strait.
