A ship carrying African migrants drowned on the banks of Yemen, killing dozens, the United Nations International Organization (IOM) said on Sunday.
What do we know so far?
The Associated Press News Agency, citing IOM, said that some of the 154 migrants died in the beginning of Sunday, when drowned in early Sunday, 74 still disappeared.
Passengers on the vessel are informed about all Ethiopian nationals.
Dozens of bodies have washed ashes in the southern Yemeni governor of Abian. Officials in Abian are participating in a discovery and rescue operation.
IOM head Abdusatore Asov in Yemen told AP that 12 migrant survived the capsing of the boat.
Why are Ethiopian in Yemen?
Despite a decade’s civil war, Yemen is still a popular transit country seeking access to rich Arab countries for migrants, who discover better lives as Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has a large Ethiopian community, with significant migrant population in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
On its visit to Yemen, the Ethiopian people have to face danger due to the war between the Houthis associated with Iran and the non-recognized government. A 2020 Human Rights Watch Report Houthis killed and expelled Ethiopian migrants in Yemen at the height of the Kovid -19 epidemic.
Ethiopia faces a high level of poverty, and the country is struggling with a conflict, including the resting tigre
An IOM report published in March found that 60,000 migrants came to Yemen in 2024. The IOM states that the route between Yemen for Horn of Africa is “one of the most busy and most dangerous migation routes in the world.”
The horn of Africa is not only made up of Ethiopia, but is also a breakway region of Somalia, Djibouti, Irritriya and Somaliland. The situation occurring as a result of climate change and as a result of food insecurity is so that migrants left Africa and head horn for the rich Gulf Arab states or Europe.
Edited by: Rana Taha
