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Rescue operations are ongoing to seek out dozens extra lacking, native authorities say.
At the least 54 African refugees and migrants have died and dozens stay lacking after a ship capsized off the coast of Yemen, based on well being authorities in Abyan governorate within the south of the nation.
Abdul Qader Bajamil, director of the well being workplace in Zanzibar, mentioned on Sunday that rescue groups had recovered 54 our bodies from the seashores there and surrounding areas, whereas 12 survivors have been transferred to Shaqra Hospital.
The boat carrying round 150 individuals, largely from Ethiopia, capsized within the Arabian Sea off the coast of Shaqra, within the Abyan governorate, resulting from sturdy winds on Saturday night.
Bajamil famous that authorities have been making preparations to bury the victims in an space close to town, whereas search operations continued amid tough situations.
The waterways between Yemen and the Horn of Africa are a common but perilous route for refugees and migrants travelling in each instructions. The world noticed a spike in Yemenis fleeing the nation after the civil conflict broke out in 2014.
Houthi rebels and authorities forces reached a truce deal in April 2022 that has resulted in a lower in violence and the slight easing of the continuing humanitarian disaster in Yemen.
In the meantime, a few of these fleeing battle in Africa, significantly in Somalia and Ethiopia, have sought refuge in Yemen or have sought to journey by way of the nation to the extra affluent Gulf nations. The route stays one of many “busiest and most perilous” migration routes on the earth, based on the United Nations’ Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM).
To succeed in Yemen, individuals are taken by smugglers on usually harmful, overcrowded boats throughout the Pink Sea or the Gulf of Aden.
In accordance with the IOM, greater than 60,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Yemen in 2024, marking a big drop from the earlier yr’s complete of 97,200.
The decreased numbers come amid elevated patrols of the waters, based on an IOM report launched in Might.
It is a lethal route that has killed a whole lot over the previous two years. In accordance with the IOM, 558 individuals died alongside the route final yr.
Over the previous decade, a minimum of 2,082 individuals have disappeared alongside the route, together with 693 identified to have drowned, based on the IOM. Yemen at present homes round 380,000 refugees and migrants.
