Somali women on trial against their smuggler, Mayotte's Journal

A somewhat special trial was held on 28 April 2025 in a regional court in Somalia. Somali women had filed an appeal against the betrayal of smugglers who were to take them to Mayotte and then to rally the Hexagone. In one of the poorest countries in the world, Somali women had to justify themselves to the bar. Thus, one of them explained to this court in Mogadishu that she had paid $5,000 in money to a smuggler to join Mayotte in the hope of a b…