{"id":79729,"date":"2025-11-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/latest-deadly-shipwreck-highlights-need-for-safer-migration\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:00:00","slug":"latest-deadly-shipwreck-highlights-need-for-safer-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=79729","title":{"rendered":"Latest deadly shipwreck highlights need for safer migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They were among 49 migrants and refugees aboard a rubber boat that departed from Zuwara in northwest Libya around 3am on 3 November, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday, citing survivors.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel capsized roughly six hours later after high waves caused the engine to fail. All passengers, 47 men and two women, were thrown overboard.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Adrift at sea<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The boat drifted for six days before Libyan authorities rescued seven men \u2013 four from Sudan, two from Nigeria and one from Cameroon \u2013 on 8 November.<\/p>\n<p>The missing passengers include 29 from Sudan, eight from Somalia, three from Cameroon, and two from Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIOM\u2019s team provided the survivors with emergency medical care, water, and food upon arrival at the disembarkation point in coordination with relevant authorities,\u201d the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Cooperation and safe migration<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The tragic event comes just weeks after other deadly incidents off Surman, Libya, and the island of Lampedusa\u202fin southern Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Latest data from IOM\u2019s Missing Migrants Project reveals that the death toll in the Central Mediterranean has already surpassed 1,000 this year, as people attempt the treacherous sea journey to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this latest shipwreck, the total has risen even further, reinforcing the urgent need for strengthened regional cooperation, expanded safe and regular migration pathways, and more effective search and rescue operations to prevent further loss of life,\u201d the statement concluded.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IOM upholds that humane and orderly migration benefits both \u201cpeople on the move&#8221; and society as a whole.<\/p>\n<h2>Deadliest migration route<\/h2>\n<p>The Missing Migrants Project was established in 2014. Since then, more than 25,600 people have died or disappeared in the Central Mediterranean, which spans from North Africa to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>It is the world&#8217;s deadliest migration route due to factors that include the length of the journey, which can take days; increasingly dangerous smuggling patterns, gaps in search-and-rescue capacity and restrictions on the work of NGOs saving lives at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, migrants often make the crossing in unseaworthy, overloaded inflatable boats. As many of these vessels can be launched at one time, this can complicate search and rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2025\/11\/1166341\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were among 49 migrants and refugees aboard a rubber boat that departed from Zuwara in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1090,476,790,2184,2094,1759],"class_list":["post-79729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-deadly","tag-highlights","tag-latest","tag-migration","tag-safer","tag-shipwreck"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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