HARADH, multiple countries
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Ethiopian migrants walk on the side of a highway leading to the western Yemeni town of Haradh on the border with Saudi Arabia March 28, 2012. Plagued by sandstorms, drought, gun runners and drug smugglers, the 1,800-km (1,100-mile) strip of land along the Yemeni-Saudi border has long been a desolate, dangerous place. But crumbling government control and a surge of migrants, driven out of the Horn of Africa by poverty and persecution, have turned it into a kind of hell where criminal gangs roam freely, trading migrants like commodities. Picture taken on March 28, 2012. To match Feature YEMEN-MIGRANTS/ REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POVERTY)