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Dozens Dead, Missing After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Djibouti

At least sixteen people are reported dead after the boat they were traveling on from Yemen capsized off the coast of Djibouti. The boat had 77 migrants on board including chldren, according to the International Organization for Migration. Dozens more are missing.

The IOM says every year, tens of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa, particularly Ethiopia and Somalia, leave the continent via Djibouti in the hope of finding work in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf nations.

Many are however unsuccessful, and thousands are left stranded in Yemen where they experience extremely harsh conditions. Monday's accident came some two weeks after another boat, also carrying a majority of Ethiopian migrants, capsized off Djibouti's coast.

Olivia Headon/IOM

Migrants who survived a boat accident in the Gulf of Aden (file photo).

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