Rescuers search for survivors on the beach after two boats carrying migrants capsized off the shore near Godoria, in northeast Djibouti Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. More than 130 migrants were thought to be missing after the two boats capsized Tuesday off the East African nation of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration said. (International Organization for Migration via AP) The Associated PressBy CARA ANNA, Associated PressJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Forty-three 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. The agency's Missing Migrants Project says at least 199 people have now drowned off the Djibouti coast near Obock, where the latest capsizing occurred, since 2014. 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 09:47 UTC