They were laid off and far from home. Now an explosion in Beirut has left them even more vulnerable.
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The 21-year-old lives in a small room in Lebanon's capital city with six other Ethiopian women. When Beirut's devastating blast hit on Tuesday evening, it blew out their door and all their windows. "We weren't home at the time, so we are safe," Hanna said, speaking to CNN on the condition that her full name wasn't used. But now, she said,"anyone in the street can walk through the door and find us sleeping. We are afraid.
— Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 August 4, 2020 But his tweet was met with some angry responses, including Yimer, who berated him for not helping to repatriate these women from the country earlier. you should have evacuated them when they told you to evacuate them several months ago. The LEAST you can do now is to immediately get them out
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