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Boat capsizes off Djibouti coast with 77 migrants on board, 16 dead
2024-04-24
[TWITTER]

Garowe adds:
At least 16 migrants colonists have died and 28 others are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.

"Tragedy as boat capsizes off Djibouti coast with 77 migrants colonists on board including children. At least 28 missing, 16 dead," the IOM said on X, formerly Twitter. The UN migration agency said it is assisting local authorities with search and rescue efforts.

The latest boat accident is one of many similar deadly calamities that have occurred along Djibouti's Red Sea coast area.

Earlier this month, the Æthiopian Embassy in Djibouti said at least 38 Æthiopian migrants colonists have died off the coast of Djibouti.

Data from the embassy show that more than 200,000 Æthiopian migrants colonists make risky land and sea journeys from the coast of Djibouti and the Gulf of Aden each year to reach destinations in the Middle East. It said at least 189 Æthiopian nationals have died off the coast of Djibouti in the past five years.

In most of these incidents, desperate East African migrants colonists attempted to cross the dangerous route, hoping to reach the Middle East via war-torn Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
. They mainly sought to reach Yemen's northern neighbor, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
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