Overview

• The vessel carrying about 150 African migrants overturned in bad weather off Abyan province early Sunday.
• Twelve survivors have been pulled from the water while 54 bodies washed ashore in Khanfar and 14 more were found elsewhere.
• Yemeni provincial authorities and the International Organization for Migration have launched large-scale searches across the Arabian Sea.
• The Bab al-Mandab strait, a key route between Djibouti and Yemen, has seen multiple deadly shipwrecks amid growing migration pressures.
• Yemen remains a critical yet perilous transit point for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty in the Horn of Africa on their way to Gulf states.