The UN Immigration Agency said on Friday that four boats that carried African migrants overnight in waters off Yemen and Djibouti died, while four boats that carried African migrants died, while 186 others were missing.
The two ships that capsized Yemen late Thursday, said Tamim Elean, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration or IOM. Two crew members were rescued, but 181 migrants and five Yemeni crew remained missing, he told The Associated Press.
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It overthrew Yemen, killing two people and 186 people missing. (Photo of the Planet Observer/Universal Images group via Getty Images)
The other two boats overthrew a small nation in Djibouti, Africa, around the same time, he said. Two immigrants were recovered and everything else on the ship was rescued.
Two boats capsized near the beach in Djibouti, head of Yemen's IOM mission, Abdusattor Esoev, told the AP that strong winds began sailing.
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East African immigrants working at a wheat plantation in Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)
The third boat that overthrowed Governor Tayz's Dubab district in southwestern Yemen carried 31 Ethiopian immigrants and three Yemeni crews.
The fourth boat, which capsized near the same area, headed towards the Awhar district of Governor Avian, carrying 150 Ethiopian immigrants and four Yemeni crews.
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Immigrants are taken to smugglers on overcrowded boats across the Red Sea. (Photo by Tasinseilan/Anadoru via Getty Images)
Yemen is the main route that migrants from East Africa and the Horn of Africa are trying to reach the Gulf countries for work, with hundreds of thousands trying each year. To reach Yemen, migrants are often taken to smugglers in dangerous, overcrowded boats across the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden.
The figures for Yemen reached 97,200 in 2023. By 2021 it tripled. Last year, this month's IOM report found that the number fell below 61,000, probably due to large body patrols.
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According to the IOM, at least 2,082 immigrants have disappeared along the route in the past decade. Currently, around 380,000 immigrants are in Yemen.
