Exploited and Extorted, 30 Africans Drown While Trying to Return Home From Yemen<br />" the statement said. that The vessel is believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who were attempting to take refugees<br />and migrants to Djibouti, while also trying to extort more money from these refugees and migrants,<br />Djibouti said that Because of the incredibly difficult conditions of Yemen, people get fed up.<br />Despite the war in Yemen, more than 87,000 migrants<br />and refugees risked their lives last year seeking to reach the country by boat from the Horn of Africa, the agency said.<br />26, 2018<br />At least 30 African migrants and refugees drowned off Yemen this week after their overcrowded vessel capsized<br />during a clash with smugglers trying to extort them for more money, the United Nations said Friday.<br />The mass drowning, in the Gulf of Aden, which separates war-ravaged Yemen from the destitute Horn of Africa, punctuated the lethal hazards facing migrants<br />and refugees in an especially insecure part of the world.<br />Jeffrey Labovitz, the agency’s regional director in Nairobi, said many migrants in Yemen are enduring "dire<br />and vulnerable situations in a country at war, which is also suffering from large-scale food shortages." Follow Rick Gladstone on Twitter: @rickgladstone.
