38 migrants dead in Shipwreck off Djibouti

• 22 survivors receiving assistance from IOM’s Djibouti office and local authorities.
• The accident involved a boat carrying 60 Ethiopian migrants from Djibouti to Yemen.
• Nearly 1,000 migrants have died or gone missing on the “Eastern Route” since 2014.

The UN’s International Organization for Migration reported on Tuesday the discovery of thirty-eight bodies, including children, following a shipwreck off the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti. At least six other individuals are missing and presumed dead after the tragic shipwreck, while 22 survivors are receiving assistance from the IOM’s Djibouti office and local authorities.

The accident, according to the Ethiopian embassy in Djibouti, took place on Monday and involved a boat carrying 60 Ethiopian migrants from Djibouti to Yemen. Every year, hundreds of thousands of African migrants brave the perilous “Eastern Route” across the Red Sea and through war-scarred Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia, in a desperate attempt to lift their families out of grinding poverty.

On X, the IOM’s Djibouti office reported that almost 1,000 migrants have died or gone missing on the Eastern Route since 2014.

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