GENEVA (Reuters) - Twenty-two Ethiopian migrants are missing after being dumped in the sea off Yemen, the U.N. International Organization 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 U.N. briefing in Geneva. "Despite the difficult security problems in Yemen, it's still a migrant transit point and we're still hearing about these reports pretty frequently," he said. Last year 87,000 migrants went to Yemen, mainly ferried from Djibouti.

Source: Ethiopian News February 09, 2018 13:07 UTC