At least 44 people died when shipwrecked in the Red Seanear the coast of Djibouti, two ships that they started from Yemen with 310 migrants on board, confirmed the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Djibouti coast guard.
The Djibouti coast guard reported late this Tuesday through X of the rescue of at least 115 migrants at sea and encrypted the dead in the accident 44 and those missing in 61.
“Search operations continue“said the Djiboutian coast guard, detailing that 61 people are still missing, but without clarifying the whereabouts of other migrants who were traveling on the boats, according to IOM data.
One of the “most dangerous” routes in the world
The eastern route from the Horn of Africa to Yemen and the Persian Gulf States is found among the “most dangerous” in the worldaccording to the IOM, and in 2023 it registered almost 400,000 movements.
That same year, at least 698 people, including women and children, They died on that routecrossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in the hope of reaching Saudi Arabia, according to data from the IOM Missing Migrants Project, a figure that is close to 1,000 in count since 2014.
Migrants leave their homes looking for better job opportunities and, in some cases, to escape conflict, insecurity and the adverse effects of climate change.
On their journeys, many face life-threatening risks, such as hunger, disease and exploitation at the hands of human traffickersdangers that they suffer again when they do not achieve their objectives and try to return to their countries of origin, mainly Ethiopia, but also Somalia on occasions.
