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At least 49 migrants feared dead and 140 missing after boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen

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A UN agency reports that at least 49 migrants have died and 140 others remain missing after a boat carrying over 200 migrants capsized off the southern province of Shabwah in Yemen. The boat, which departed from Somalia on Sunday morning, was carrying 115 Somali nationals and 145 Ethiopians who were attempting to reach Gulf states via Yemen. According to local authorities, those on board were migrants using Yemen as a transit point.

  1. UN International Organization for Migration
    1. Search and rescue operations are ongoing despite significant challenges due to a shortage of operational patrol boats.
  2. Mixed Migration Centre
    1. However, even if central Saudi authorities would have instructed border guards to reduce or end the killings, MMC found that the killing of Ethiopian migrants by Saudi security officials has been continuing.

sources

  1. 1.Al Jazeera
  2. 2.BBC
  3. 3.Daily Sabah
  4. 4.Le Monde
  5. 5.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.Disasters
  2. 2.Immigration
  3. 3.Boating Accident

countries

  1. 1.DjiboutiDJ
  2. 2.EthiopiaET
  3. 3.United KingdomGB
  4. 4.IsraelIL
  5. 5.Iran, Islamic Republic ofIR
  6. 6.Saudi ArabiaSA
  7. 7.SomaliaSO
  8. 8.United StatesUS
  9. 9.YemenYE

organizations

  1. 1.UN International Organization for Migration
  2. 2.HouthiYE
  3. 3.United Nations
  4. 4.Human Rights Watch
  5. 5.Mixed Migration Centre

persons

  1. 1.Mohammedali Abunajela
  2. 2.Hadi Al-Khurma

technicals

  1. 1.Red Sea
  2. 2.Gulf Of Aden