{"id":31783,"date":"2024-04-25T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/un-migration-agency-assists-survivors-of-deadly-shipwreck-off-djibouti\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:03:30","slug":"un-migration-agency-assists-survivors-of-deadly-shipwreck-off-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/un-migration-agency-assists-survivors-of-deadly-shipwreck-off-djibouti\/","title":{"rendered":"UN migration agency assists survivors of deadly shipwreck off Djibouti"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is offering medical care, food, shelter and psychosocial support to 33 migrants who survived a shipwreck off the coast of Djibouti on Monday, as local authorities continue search and rescue operations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The migrants were on a boat carrying at least 77 people from Ras al-Ara off Yemen\u2019s coast which capsized off the coast of Djibouti, near Obock, leaving 24 dead and 20 others missing.<\/p>\n

Just two weeks ago, a similar accident, resulting in the death of at least 38 migrants, occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe occurrence of two such tragedies within a span of two weeks highlights the dangers faced by children, women, and men migrating through irregular routes,\u00a0<\/strong>underscoring the importance of establishing safe and legal pathways for migration,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Tanja Pacifico,\u00a0IOM\u00a0Chief of Mission in Djibouti.<\/p>\n

Searching for a better life\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In both cases, it is believed that migrants were trying to return to Djibouti from Yemen after being unable to travel to Saudi Arabia for better work and other opportunities.<\/p>\n

Each year, tens of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa, in particular Ethiopia and Somalia, attempt to travel through Djibouti for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf nations, but are often unsuccessful and end up stranded in Yemen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must work to prevent as much as possible those circumstances where migrants\u2019 safety and well-being are threatened and ensure that migrants are able to maintain contact with their families,\u201d Pacifico said.<\/p>\n

Numbers on the rise<\/strong><\/h5>\n

IOM\u2019s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has reported that 3,682 migrants have left Yemen for Djibouti since the beginning of 2024 \u2013 this is more than double the figure from last year.<\/p>\n

Despite the dangerous and life-threatening journey, IOM\u2019s DTM recorded about 380,000 journeys along the Eastern Corridor from Africa to countries in the Arab Peninsula which claimed the lives of 1,350 \u2013 many more deaths have gone unreported.<\/p>\n

IOM Djibouti is continually supporting local authorities to prevent similar deaths on sea and land. The organization has also partnered with\u00a048 other humanitarian and development groups and governments to coordinate the Regional Migrant Response Plan (MRP) which will respond to migrants\u2019 humanitarian needs along the Eastern Route.<\/p>\n

Pacifico noted, \u201cIOM, as Coordinator of the UN Network on Migration, is actively working on actionable recommendations for providing humanitarian assistance to migrants in distress and addressing the plight of missing migrants and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is offering medical care, food, shelter and psychosocial support to 33 migrants who survived a shipwreck off the coast of Djibouti on Monday, as local authorities continue search and rescue operations.\u00a0 The migrants were on a boat carrying at least 77 people from Ras al-Ara off Yemen\u2019s coast which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}