The street accident injured 65 individuals after the truck carrying migrants and asylum seekers overturned on the town of Semera, in line with native authorities.
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Not less than 22 individuals have been killed, and 65 others have been injured after a cargo truck filled with Ethiopian asylum seekers and migrants overturned on a freeway.
The street accident happened in Semera, within the nation’s northern Afar area, a number of hundred kilometres west of neighbouring Djibouti, native authorities reported on Tuesday.
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“The accident occurred when a truck overturned, which had crowded in residents who have been misled by unlawful brokers and didn’t perceive the journey route’s hazard,” the Afar communications bureau wrote in an announcement on Fb.
“The regional authorities has been doing all the required life-saving operations for the reason that accident occurred, and in the meanwhile, it’s ensuring that the injured individuals get full medical consideration at Doubtee Referral Hospital. The federal government needs consolation and energy to the households of the deceased, relations and mates.”
Japanese route
Ethiopia is among the foremost departure factors for the so-called Japanese Route, which asylum seekers and migrants take to go away the Horn of Africa – nations that make up jap Africa, together with Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti – primarily to search out work in Gulf nations.
1000’s of African asylum seekers and migrants take the route throughout the Purple Sea, the vast majority of the time from Djibouti to Yemen, many looking for work as labourers or home staff.
Between January and September 2025, there have been 890 deaths and disappearances alongside the Japanese Route, the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) reported.
Final 12 months’s figures doubled 2024’s dying toll in the identical interval in what the United Nations organisation known as “the best annual toll ever documented after 2022 [882] and 2023 [701]”.
“Tracked outgoing actions alongside the Japanese Route between January and September elevated by 24 p.c, from 283,100 in 2024 to 351,000 in 2025, primarily attributable to resumed information assortment in Yemen, and better and sooner transit flows and shifting routes to evade controls in Djibouti and Somalia,” the IOM mentioned.
However regardless of the excessive casualty figures, the route continues to be widespread. Based on the IOM, it’s the “busiest and riskiest migration route on the planet”.
Nonetheless, whereas Ethiopia is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with about 130 million inhabitants, and one of many quickest rising economies, greater than 40 p.c reside beneath the poverty line, in line with the World Financial institution.