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There is an incredible account where rickety ships filled dangerously with migrants -escaping war and famine- are seeking shelter and work in another place: but then in 1939, the desperate migrants were Arabs, and the port to which they were escaping in hopes of finding jobs and respite was Mogadishu. Here is the short and terrible account:
Why, I asked Nejdi [the nakhoda], did so many Arabs wish to leave their country at once, in so poor a vessel? Nejdi said there was trouble between Sharjah, the next port up the coast, and Dabai [sic], whence the boom hailed –political trouble, bad enough to culminate in a local war. He left me to gather that perhaps these people from Dabai crowding that boom were fleeing from the war: but Hamed bin Salim said there was a famine round Dabai and all the Trucial Coast was so poor that anyone might gladly leave it, even in a sixty-foot boom crowded with two hundred people.


http://thegamming.org/2014/04/15/sailin ... -industry/

And 5 decades later the situation would be reverse. Arabs have experienced the exact same situation somalis are are going through now.
Ilaahay maqaadiirtiisa waa yaab wlhi.

Look at that

Civil wars and instability are naturally recurrent factors in human society. History is our guarantor of return to normalcy, we'll probably live to see it

I've heard plenty of tales from old somali sailors that cities like Berbera, Maydh and Xiis were hot destinations for unemployed arabs from the gulf countries. The world is a funny place.

Two arab brothers once came to bosaso looking for work.one brother got injured in the eye by a somali.both went back to yemen and eventually saudi arabia.they were the ibn laden brothers.