Thirty bodies have been found after some 130 migrants went missing off Djibouti when two boats capsized in rough waters, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday. An 18-year-old survivor told the migration agency he had boarded one of the boats with another 130 people, including 16 women. The vast majority of the migrants are Ethiopian, young and male, the migration agency says. “This tragic event demonstrates the risks that vulnerable migrants face as they innocently search for better lives,” said the migration agency’s Djibouti chief of mission, Lalini Veerassamy. The route also sees a flow of migrants from Yemen toward the Horn of Africa as people flee war.

Source: Ethiopian News January 30, 2019 12:22 UTC