{"id":247143,"date":"2026-10-14T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/nigeria-mourns-140-migrants-killed-in-djibouti-boat-tragedy-calls-for-action-against-irregular-migration\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:00:08","slug":"nigeria-mourns-140-migrants-killed-in-djibouti-boat-tragedy-calls-for-action-against-irregular-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/nigeria-mourns-140-migrants-killed-in-djibouti-boat-tragedy-calls-for-action-against-irregular-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Mourns 140 Migrants Killed in Djibouti Boat Tragedy, Calls for Action Against Irregular Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Abuja \u2014 The Federal Government has expressed condolences to Djibouti following the death of nearly 140 migrants, including 15 children, in a boat disaster off the country&#8217;s coast, calling for urgent collective action to address the root causes of irregular migration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nigeria, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja, said the boat capsized between October 8 and 9, 2026, leaving scores of people missing, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610140103.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>Abuja \u2014 The Federal Government has expressed condolences to Djibouti following the death of nearly 140 migrants, including 15 children, in a boat disaster off the country&#8217;s coast, calling for urgent collective action to address the root causes of irregular migration. Nigeria, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":247144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[6394,258,256,7202,6137,4701,568,19379,4327,6928,6486,9061,257,4687,254,13662],"class_list":["post-247143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boat","tag-calls","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-irregular","tag-killed","tag-migrants","tag-migration","tag-mourns","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tragedy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247143","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=247143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}