💭 At least 16 people are dead and 28 others are missing after a boat carrying asylum seekers capsized off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, according to the UN’s migration agency.
The accident occurred on Monday night, about two weeks after another boat carrying mainly Ethiopian asylum seekers sank off the Djibouti coast, killing several dozen people, on the perilous so-called “eastern migration route” from Africa to the Middle East.
“Tragedy as boat capsizes off Djibouti coast with 77 migrants on board including children,” the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday in a post on X.
“At least 28 missing. 16 dead,” it said, adding that the local IOM branch was “supporting local authorities with search and rescue effort”.
Yvonne Ndege, a spokeswoman for the agency, told the AFP news agency that the 16 deaths included children and an infant, without offering further details.
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Djibouti, Berhanu Tsegaye, said on X that the boat was carrying Ethiopians from Yemen and that the accident occurred off Godoria in northeastern Djibouti.
He said 33 people, including one woman, survived.
Another boat carrying more than 60 people sank off the coast of Godoria on April 8, according to the IOM and the Ethiopian embassy in Djibouti.
The IOM said at the time that the bodies of 38 people, including children, were recovered, while another six people were missing.
The Ethiopian embassy had said the boat was carrying Ethiopians from Djibouti to war-torn Yemen.
According to the IOM, Ethiopians make up 79 percent of about 100,000 people who arrived in Yemen last year from Djibouti or Somalia, the remainder being Somalis.
Africa’s second-most populous country, Ethiopia is blighted by various conflicts and several regions have suffered from severe drought in recent years.
More than 15 percent of its 120 million inhabitants depend on food aid.
In February, the IOM said that according to its Missing Migrants Project at least 698 people, including women and children, had died crossing the Gulf of Aden from Djibouti to Yemen last year.
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💭 “Given the evidence, I call on the Government once again to immediately suspend the use of all mRNA treatments in both humans and animals, pending the outcome of [the Covid Inquiry’s investigation into covid vaccines and theurapeutics],” Andrew Bridgen, Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire, said during a debate in parliament.
👏 Mr. Andrew Bridgen put forward a motion in Parliament for the Covid Inquiry to open its Module 4 on the safety and efficacy of the experimental covid-19 injections as soon as possible.
On 12 January, the UK Covid Inquiry announced that public hearings for the Inquiry’s fourth investigation into vaccines and therapeutics, Module 4, was being rescheduled. The hearings were originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2024. “They will now take place at a later date,” the Inquiry’s website states.
Three days later, Mr. Bridgen mentioned the Covid Inquiry’s decision during a debate saying he felt Module 4 had been delayed as “political pressure has been placed on the inquiry” due to upcoming general elections.
“Introducing the motion for the Inquiry to open Module 4 yesterday, Mr. Bridgen began: “We are witnesses to the greatest medical scandal in this country in living memory, and possibly ever: the excess deaths in 2022 and 2023. Its causes are complex, but the novel and untested medical treatment described as a covid vaccine is a large part of the problem.”
Officials are hiding key data in this scandal. The Office for National Statistics used to release weekly data on deaths per 100,000 in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, but it no longer does so. “The public have the right to that data”, Mr, Bridgen said…”