In Puntland, Isis in Somalia Takes Advantage of the Despair of Migrants to Inflate Its Ranks

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Every year, tens of thousands of Ethiopians transit through this autonomous region before crossing the Gulf of Aden. Exhausted by the road and without financial resources, some of them yield to the sirens of the jihadist organization.

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The boot of a policeman sinks into the white sand and flattens a decolored hat half buried. On the other foot, he crushes a pile of plastic bottles, where go over a broken torch and worn shoes. Mareero beach, about ten kilometers east of the city of Bossasso, is littered with clothes, broken phones, empty tuna boxes. The ultimate signs of life of thousands of candidates for exile who, every year, embark here on makeshift boats in the hope of cro…