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Author: Idil Osman

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Idil Osman

Idil Osman is a Research Associate and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS. Her work focuses on Somalia, the Horn of Africa, migration, media, development, conflict and the diaspora. She currently works for the Research and Evidence Facility for Migration from the Horn of Africa (soas.ac.uk/ref-hornresearch).

  • Refugees and migrants line up on a Somalia beach to board the boats that will take them across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. In a military style operation, the passengers board the small smugglers’ boats in groups of 10. The overcrowded boats can take days to cross. Credit: Alixandra Fazzina.
    Red SeaSociety
    By Idil Osman
    August 9, 2018
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    Why are migrants from the Horn flocking to war-torn Yemen?

    In the past few years, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian and Somali migrants have charted a new route to the Gulf. This is the third part ...
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