The authorities in Yemen say, two boats of African migrants have capsized off its coast, killing more than eighty people on board. The accident was caused by high winds and a tsunami which capsized the two boats taking them towards the coast. One boat with 46 migrants aboard, most of them Ethiopians, capsized in a coastal region of Taez province, with all those on board drowning except for three Somalis who survived. Another boat carrying between 35 to 40 people, all of them Ethiopians and among them women and children went down off the coast of another southern province, Lahij. Their fate is not yet known. Each year tens of thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis make the perilous crossing to Yemen in the hope of escaping the economic deprivation, persecution and conflicts of their home countries. Many die on board often overcrowded and rotten small boats.