Smugglers

The head of a human trafficking ring, Tewelde Goitom, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday by a court in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This Eritrean nickname "Walid" had been at the head of a gang of smugglers and a detention center in Libya between 2014 and 2018, where crimes were committed daily against African migrants.…

According to survivors rescued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), smugglers "violently pushed young men and women out of the boat." There are eight dead and 12 missing among these migrants trying to return to the Horn of Africa. It is a horror scene that on Sunday, October 4, described the International…