IOM: Migrants deliberately dumped overboard, dozens dead - October 04, 2024

Daybreak Africa - VOA Africa

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has given an update on the fate of hundreds of migrants who were forced to disembark their boats off the Djibouti coast by smugglers this week, resulting in the death of dozens. IOM Regional Director for East, Horn and Southern Africa, Frantz Celestin, told VOA’s Horn of Africa Service that two boats fully loaded with migrants, carrying a total of 310 people, were forced by the smugglers to disembark in the middle of the sea. He denied earlier reports suggesting that the boats sunk. Celestin spoke to VOA Horn of Africa Service reporter Jalene Gemeda