Twenty-two Ethiopian migrants are missing after being dumped in the sea off Yemen, the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. IOM spokesman, Joel Millman, said the missing people were on one of four boats that brought 602 Ethiopian men and women to the coast of Yemen’s Shabwa governorate in the past 24 hours. “No bodies have been recovered but 22 remain unaccounted for,” Millman told a regular UN briefing in Geneva. In 2017, 87,000 migrants went to Yemen, mainly ferried from Djibouti. Within Yemen, more than 85,000 people have been displaced since the start of December, mainly from Hodeidah and Taizz governorates, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said.

Source: Ethiopian News February 09, 2018 16:07 UTC