About eight months ago, on December 16th, 2023, I wrote on the subject matter in an article published on Eurasiareview.com and noted that the Horn African Diaspora in their millions can contribute to their homelands a minimum of some US$ 3.6 billion on annual basis taking into consideration a global 3 million Horn African diaspora remitting minimum US$100 per month per individual to their homelands to support their families.

The story of how a diaspora can help the homeland does not end with small remittances to support one’s parents and siblings or kins. A diaspora is usually seen as a potential source of social and economic development in both the host countries and the original homelands.

In a host country, it increases the population both working and the offspring they would bring forth in the future, i.e. future working population and hence a new taxpayer population. They contribute to increasing the ingenuity and new blood not only into the sciences, academia and intellectual development but also the health, social fabric and human resources of the host country, which is seen and read by the source countries as a loss to themselves. Note many have been educated and cared for by their original countries and have arrived at their final destinations ready to produce if well deployed in the proper places where they could contribute.

Many host countries see them as an additional nuisance or people who have come to take jobs without truly looking truthfully at the contribution new immigrants bring into their........

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