{"success":true,"data":{"id":"ddc14154-345a-47b2-ace5-4b013de6e3b1","title":"🔴At least 109 migrants dead, more than 100 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti","summary":"en Settings Close Headings By region Previous Next At least 139 migrants dead, more than 84 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti Africa At least 139 migrants, including at least 15 children, died and 84 remain missing after a boat carrying 350 people capsized off Djibouti en route to Yemen, the ...","content":"*   en\n\n*   Settings \n\nClose\n\nHeadings\n\n By region \n\nPrevious Next\n\n# At least 139 migrants dead, more than 84 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti\n\n Africa \n\nAt least 139 migrants, including at least 15 children, died and 84 remain missing after a boat carrying 350 people capsized off Djibouti en route to Yemen, the International Organisation for Migration said on Sunday.\n\nIssued on: 11/10/2026 - 11:24 Modified: 11/10/2026 - 16:01\n\n 1 min Reading time\n\n By: \n\n This handout picture released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Djibouti on October 11, 2026 shows members of IOM Djibouti assisting survivors after a boat sank off the coast of Djibouti on the night of October 8-9. © Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) de Djibouti via AFP \n\nAt least 139 migrants were killed after a boat sank off the shores of Djibouti overnight on October 8-9, a UN agency said Sunday.\n\nAn earlier statement indicated an initial toll of 109 dead including 15 children, with some 116 missing. The updated figure accounts for the discovery of a further 30 bodies, with a total of 84 individuals remaining unspoken for.\n\nSurvivors said the vessel – which was carrying 350 people from Djibouti to Yemen – capsized north of the Djibouti town of Obock, according to a statement from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), whose teams are on the ground alongside local authorities to provide emergency aid.\n\n\"This is a devastating loss of life. Our thoughts are with the survivors and the families who have lost loved ones or remain without news of their relatives,\" said Alexandre Coissac, IOM chief of mission in Djibouti, in the statement.\n\nRead moreDjibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh wins sixth term in office\n\nHe said IOM teams were on the ground alongside Djiboutian authorities to provide emergency aid.\n\n\"This tragedy is a stark reminder of the dangers faced by migrants along this migration corridor as they seek economic opportunities\" by trying to cross the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Yemen and then to reach Gulf countries.\n\nAmong the bodies recovered were at least 52 men, 42 women and 15 children – nine girls and six boys – the statement said.\n\nMore than 80 people survived the shipwreck, all Ethiopian nationals.\n\n\"Poverty, insecurity and the growing impacts of climate change drive many to undertake this journey, despite mounting instability across the Middle East,\" the IOM said.\n\n_(FRANCE 24 with AFP)_","source_name":"France 24","source_url":"https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20261011-at-least-hundred-migrants-dead-scores-missing-after-boat-capsizes-off-djibouti","url":"https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20261011-at-least-hundred-migrants-dead-scores-missing-after-boat-capsizes-off-djibouti","author":"FRANCE24","author_name":"FRANCE24","published_at":"2026-10-11T09:43:01.000Z","publication_date":"2026-10-11T09:43:01.000Z","image_url":"https://s.france24.com/media/display/b04f8942-c57b-11f1-9bf6-53993c5f1f18/w:1024/p:16x9/000-D2WH3JN.jpg","category":"world","topic":"world","tags":[],"political_bias":null,"bias_score":null,"confidence_score":null,"credibility_score":null,"factual_quality":null,"reading_time":2,"word_count":399,"view_count":0,"breaking":false,"breaking_news":false,"ai_analysis":null,"fact_check_status":"unverified","archive_status":"hot","language":null}}