From one hell to another
Abdi Haji, 60, lives with Halima Abdi after being found sleeping on the streets of Aden. Olia said she came to Yemen on a boat from Somalia’s Bossaso port alone, hoping to make the Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, a duty of every observant Muslim.
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