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  • Aerial view of tyre tracks and footprints in the desert
    On the left, tyre tracks left from vehicles that carry migrants who have enough money to pay for the 2-hour drive. On the right, footprints marking the path that migrants took on the long walk from Obock to the Red Sea departure point
  • An aerial view of a desert road with little in the distance
    The route from Obock to the Red Sea coast where migrants depart to Yemen
  • An aerial view straight down onto a truck in the desert
    The route from Obock to the Red Sea coast where migrants depart to Yemen
  • A man walks away from camera down an outstretched road in a desert scene
    Not everyone reaches their destination. Zaro Hailyu, 28, walked for 15 days from his home in Eastern Ethiopia to Obock, hoping to cross into Yemen and Saudi Arabia, but he ran out of money
  • A view between two long rows of identical white box shelters
    New prefabricated shelters, all of them outfitted with air conditioning, but they are not yet connected to electricity, and they remain unoccupied
  • A group of men sit and lay on the floor inside a large tent with UNHCR branding and nets
    24-year-old Muhamad Ali Sakaf, from the city of Taiz, in the red shirt, arrived two nights before without knowing what was next. “For the moment, we don’t know. We are settled, we just arrived,” he said
  • A man holds up a photo of life in Aden, during better times, long before the war
    Ali Aman, 65, has been waiting for nearly two years in Markazi refugee camp in the hopes of finding resettlement elsewhere
  • A sandy, arid scene with trees in the background and mixed material buried in the foreground
    Here, an unmarked grave marks the spot where a migrant perished of thirst while making the journey in 2015
  • A trail of human footprints that stretches into the horizon marks the spot where hundreds of migrants walk, across the dry desert planes from Obock to Gahere Beach
    A trail of human footprints that stretches into the horizon marks the spot where hundreds of migrants walk, across the dry desert planes from Obock to Gahere Beach
  • A trail of human footprints that stretches into the horizon marks the spot where hundreds of migrants walk, across the dry desert planes from Obock to Gahere Beach
    A trail of human footprints that stretches into the horizon marks the spot where hundreds of migrants walk, across the dry desert planes from Obock to Gahere Beach
  • The beach is littered with the detritus. Flip-flops, plastic bottles, bras, wallets, belts, backpacks, rotted yellow jerry cans, empty medicine tablets, and more
    The beach is littered with the detritus. Flip-flops, plastic bottles, bras, wallets, belts, backpacks, rotted yellow jerry cans, empty medicine tablets, and more
  • A shoe left on Gahere Beach
    A shoe left on Gahere Beach
  • A work identification card from Ethiopia, partially ripped. No name was visible
    A work identification card from Ethiopia, partially ripped. No name was visible
  • A pair of shoes left behind on Gahere Beach
    A pair of shoes left behind on Gahere Beach
  • Rubbish on sand
    The final spot where migrants board boats is crowded with the detritus of what they left behind
  • Debris on sand
    Many migrants also board vessels from Tiir, another beach approximately 10 kilometers South of Gahere. The area has historically been used for military exercises, and UXOs like this shell, litter the area
  • Many migrants also board vessels from Tiir, another beach approximately 10 kilometers South of Gahere. The area has historically been used for military exercises, and UXOs like this shell, litter the area
  • A wallet from an unknown migrant, left behind at Tiir
  • Portrait of an Ethiopian young man looking off camera wearing a yellow, athletic v-neck shirt
    "Our shoes ripped and we continued seven days without shoes," he said. "The ground was hot, so around noon we had to stop and wait until the sun went down a bit before we continued."
  • Four young men walk toward the camera on a road in an arid landscape with little else surrounding them
    After walking two months, these men, who wished to withhold their names, arrived in Obock on February 23
  • Portrait of a man looking off camera wearing a grey shirt and necklace
    Alafom Gebre Sadik, 30, found work in Saudi Arabia but was deported by authorities back to Ethiopia
  • A man faces the camera, his shadow stretching behind him, with his sweater hanging by the hood off of his head in front of a tree where other men rest.
    Deste Berhe, 25, says he witnessed a car explode after it was hit by an aerial bomb, shortly after arriving on the coast of Yemen
  • A woman with a green long sleeve shirt and a red bandana in her hair laughs. There is a camel in the background
    Alam Haile, 20, is trying to get back to Saudi Arabia, where she had worked for two years cleaning houses before she was caught and deported back to Ethiopia
  • A group of men stand, facing away, in the shade of a tree in an arid landscape outside a settlement
    Fantahero, a hamlet located just outside of the town of Obock, is often the last waiting point for many migrants. It's a place of rest before they make the gruelling journey to the Red Sea coast and onwards to Yemen
  • A group of men stand, facing away, in the shade of a tree in an arid landscape outside a settlement
    Fantahero, a hamlet located just outside of the town of Obock, is often the last waiting point for many migrants. It's a place of rest before they make the gruelling journey to the Red Sea coast and onwards to Yemen

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