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Fishing boats float in the water off the coast of Bossasso, Somalia, a port on the Gulf of Aden that's the base for one of the world's largest and most dangerous human smuggling operations.
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The beaches near Bossasso, Somalia, are the starting point for one of the world's largest and deadliest illegal migrations.
Shashank Bengali / MCT
At least 29,000 Africans were smuggled last year from Bossasso to Yemen, evading capture by Somali authorities who say they don't have enough manpower to keep up with the dozens of smugglers who operate in and around the city.
Shashank Bengali / MCT
Kasahoun Gorabat, a 26-year-old Ethiopian, has paid smugglers to take him by fishing boat from Somalia to Yemen five times in the last six years. He's one of tens of thousands of Africans who've made the journey in recent years to look for work.
Shashank Bengali / MCT
The bustling port town of Bossasso, Somalia, is the hub for what the U.N. calls one of the world's largest, deadliest and least known illegal migrations.
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Hundreds of Ethiopan migrants work in construction and other menial jobs in the port town of Bossasso, Somalia, trying to save money for a $50 boat crossing to Yemen.
Shashank Bengali / MCT
Migrants from Ethiopia and southern Somalia struggle to find menial jobs as porters and dock workers in the northern port town of Bossasso, Somalia, in order to pay a $50 passage by fishing boat to Yemen.
Shashank Bengali / MCT
A migrant worker unloads cargo from a truck in the busy port town of Bossasso, Somalia, on the Gulf of Aden. Hundreds of migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia work as day laborers in Bossasso, trying to save up enough money for a $50-100 boat crossing to Yemen.
Shashank Bengali / MCT
Migrants from Ethiopia and southern Somalia struggle to find menial jobs as porters and dock workers in the northern port town of Bossasso, Somalia.
Shashank Bengali / MCT
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