Highlights
Since April, IOM has assisted 2,060 migrants, including 90 resettlement cases to Sweden and France to leave Yemen by air, and has also organized 12 boat rotations evacuating a total of 2,257 migrants by sea.
In response to Cyclones Chapala and Megh, IOM is transporting 100 Non-Food Item kits containing mattresses, blankets, and cooking equipment to Shabwah governorate, which will be distributed to 700 displaced persons.
Between 5 and 11 November, 112 migrants attended awareness sessions on irregular migration, and around 50 host community members benefited from human trafficking awareness raising sessions by IOM in Djibouti.
Situation Overview
Between 5 and 11 November, airstrikes, armed clashes and shelling took place in Amran, Al Bayda, Al Dhale’e, Al Jawf, Hajjah, Marib, Sa’dah Shabwah and Taizz governorates.
Tropical Cyclone Megh, another Arabian Sea tropical cyclone, passed over Socotra on 8 November. As of 10 November, Tropical Cyclone Megh has weakened from a Tropical Storm to a Tropical Depression and is now dissipating, with no significant wind or rain reported as it made landfall with mainland Yemen. The impact of Cyclone Megh on Socotra Island has been severe, with local residents reporting that it was more severe than Cyclone Chapala (Source: OCHA, 9 November). The humanitarian community is finding it difficult to determine the total number of people in need as a result of the two cyclones as the telephone lines are mostly down, and the inability to access the affected areas (Abyan, Hadramaut, Shabwah, Al Mahara and Socotra).
A convoy of trucks, containing NFIs from IOM, WFP and UNHCR, departed Aden for Al Mukalla on 8 November. Four of the 21 trucks have reached Al Mukalla, with the remaining trucks delayed due to bad road conditions. The NFI assistance will support 1,600 displaced families (around 11,200 people) in Al Mukalla and Shabwah governorates. IOM and WHO are preparing to send NFIs and medical supplies to Socotra by airplane.