{"id":247001,"date":"2026-10-13T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-shipwreck-kills-109-migrants-116-missing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:00:10","slug":"djibouti-shipwreck-kills-109-migrants-116-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-shipwreck-kills-109-migrants-116-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti Shipwreck Kills 109 Migrants, 116 Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Djibouti, Oct 11 \u2014 At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died and more than 116 remain missing after a boat carrying 305 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti while heading to Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The vessel capsized near Guhere, north of the coastal town of Obock, during the night of Oct. 8-9, according to survivors cited by the United Nations migration agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">IOM said authorities had recovered 109 bodies, including 52 men,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djibouti, Oct 11 \u2014 At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died and more than 116 remain missing after a boat carrying 305 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti while heading to Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday. The vessel capsized near Guhere, north of the coastal town of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":247002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690577:01f083b8734da8ce3aeb6f37f5d2aab7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,4701,568,7500,6928,6947,257,4730,254],"class_list":["post-247001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-kills","tag-migrants","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-shipwreck","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690577:01f083b8734da8ce3aeb6f37f5d2aab7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}