{"id":9238,"date":"2014-12-08T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2014-12-08T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:12:29","slug":"70-ethiopians-perish-in-red-sea-aljazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9238","title":{"rendered":"70 Ethiopians perish in Red Sea &#8211; Aljazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/70-Ethiopians-drowned-in-Red-Sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/70-Ethiopians-drowned-in-Red-Sea-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"70 Ethiopians drowned in Red Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/70-Ethiopians-drowned-in-Red-Sea-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/70-Ethiopians-drowned-in-Red-Sea-220x145.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/70-Ethiopians-drowned-in-Red-Sea.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(ALJAZEERA) &#8211; At least 70 Ethiopians have drowned after a boat used by smugglers to transport migrants to Yemen sank in the Red Sea in rough weather, according to security authorities in the western part of Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities in Taiz province told the Associated Press news agency on Sunday that the small boat sank after encountering high winds and rough seas off al-Makha port.<\/p>\n<p>Human traffickers often use unseaworthy boats to smuggle African migrants to Yemen, seen as a gateway to wealthier parts of the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia and Oman, and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>They said the boat was carrying 70 people, all of them Ethiopians.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of migrants from Africa, the Middle East and beyond crowd into often unsafe boats each year and many drown.<\/p>\n<p>In March, at least 42 African migrants drowned in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ALJAZEERA) &#8211; At least 70 Ethiopians have drowned after a boat used by smugglers to transport migrants to Yemen sank in the Red Sea in rough weather, according to security authorities in the western part of Yemen. The authorities in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9238\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}