Local Editor
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is preparing to receive up to several hundreds of migrants in Al Hudaydah governorate in Yemen, trying to get out of harm’s way and escape the conflict.
Since late March 2015, when the conflict first erupted, IOM has been responding to the needs of vulnerable and stranded migrants in Yemen. The conflict’s frontlines remained relatively unchanged throughout 2016, resulting in more than 40,000 causalities and 3 million displaced Yemenis. This year the conflict has already shifted in a way that affects the popular routes that migrants from the Horn of Africa use to pass through Yemen headed for a Gulf country.
While the focus of IOM’s in-country partners remains on the growing number of vulnerable Yemenis internally displaced from Taiz to Al Hudaydah, migrants are injured or killed alongside Yemenis, as the conflict enters its third year.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
