02 October 2024

Obock, 2 October –– At least 48 people have tragically died and 111 still missing after they were forced off their vessel in open sea by smugglers. The incident that occurred off the coast of Obock, near Godoria involving two boats transporting migrants returning from Yemen.
According to survivors, the first boat carried 100 migrants while the second had 210 on board all returning to Djibouti from Yemen. Migrants were forced by the Yemenite boat operators to disembark in the open sea and swim. One woman drowned, but her 4-month-old infant survived along with 98 others from the first boat.
The International Organization for Migration in Djibouti is supporting state emergency services in search and rescue operations for missing persons. So far, 55 people have been rescued and are receiving medical and psychosocial support. Ongoing search and rescue operations are underway by the Djiboutian Coast Guard to locate the missing migrants.
The Djibouti Government is providing humanitarian assistance and protection interventions including medical assistance, mental health and psychosocial support and safe shelter to the survivors.
Source: UN & Djibouti media outlets.
This cannot continue, Djibouti must close its border with war-torn Ethiopia, It is a miserable hell hole overcrowded country which will doubtlessly cease to exist as we know it today very soon, There is no hope for the future of this shithole country called war-torn Ethiopia, War-torn Ethiopia’s destiny, obviously, is to disintegrate into eighty five independent countries.
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh must close the border with war-torn Ethiopia.
There is no hope in war-torn Ethiopia.

