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UN: 20 Migrants Die after Thrown Overboard
2021-03-05
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The International Organization for Migration said Thursday at least 20 migrants colonists are dead after smugglers threw 80 overboard during a voyage from Djibouti in East Africa to 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...
A statement said "smugglers started shouting there were too many on board" after the boat with 200 migrants colonists, including children under 18, set off on Wednesday.
Who could have anticipated a sea cruise trip to Yemen would be less-than-rapturous?
The IOM said five bodies have been recovered, and survivors are being treated in Djibouti.

The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic and the resulting closed borders have slowed but not stopped the flow of migrants colonists. The IOM said about 138,000 people made the journey in 2019 but just 37,500 in 2020.

It is not immediately clear what countries the migrants colonists in this latest journey were from, but many make the voyage from Æthiopia and Somalia.

Posted by:Fred

#2  into the ocean evidently
Posted by: Chris   2021-03-05 23:44  

#1  I don’t understand migrants going through Yemen. Where can one go from there except back to Somalia?
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-03-05 11:42  

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