An international organization monitored the return of more than 11,000 Ethiopian migrants stranded in Yemen to Djibouti on spontaneous boat trips across the sea.

The International Organization for Migration said in a recent report that it had monitored a total of 11,286 Ethiopian migrants stranded in Yemen who had returned to Djibouti on dangerous boat journeys since last January.

The report added that migrants coming from Yemen returned to the cities of Obock and Tadjoura in Djibouti, and the month of February ranked first with 1,730 migrants, followed by October (1,567), then September (1,561), May 1,240, March (1,177), and July (1,000). ), August (963), January (775), June (642), and April (631).

The displacement matrix in Djibouti confirmed that the return of migrants continued in an upward trend during the last two months, “due to tightening controls by the Yemeni authorities, which forced most of them to return, voluntarily or forcibly.”

The report indicated that 55 migrants died in two boat sinking incidents carrying 310 migrants returning from Yemen, off the coast of Djibouti, on the first of last October.

International Migration reported that at least 182 migrants were killed or missing in six boat sinking incidents off the coasts of Yemen, Djibouti and Somalia since the beginning of this month.