Highlights
Since April, 53,269 IDPs and conflicict- affected persons in Abyan, Aden, Al Dhale’e, Hajjah, Al Hudaydah, Sana’a, Shabwah and Socotra Island have been provided with health assistance including emergency and primary health care.
IOM continues to provide life-saving assistance in response to Cyclones Chapala and Megh. Distribu on of shelter and non-food items kits, and provision of health assistance and water trucking services to IDPs and affected communities in Socotra Island, Abyan and Shabwah continues.
As of 2 December, over 70,700 people have arrived in Djibouti , Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan from Yemen. To date, over 23,000 individuals have received post-arrival assistance from IOM.
Situation Overview Instability and violence continue across the country. Twenty of Yemen’s 22 governorates are directly affected by airstrikes, armed clashes, and shelling. The Yemen humanitarian crisis has been identified by the United Nations as one of the world's worst, with 80% of the country's popula on on the brink of famine.
On 2 December, the British Ambassador to the United Nations Ma hew Rycro told reporters that the UN-brokered peace talks for Yemen are expected to finally open in Geneva in mid-December. Peace talks were expected to begin mid-November, a er Houthi representatives announced their willingness to accept the UN Security Council Resolution calling for Houthi withdrawal from seized territories. UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been holding talks for weeks with all sides to try to launch peace talks. However, no date has been announced for the formal nego a ons.
In response to Tropical Cyclones Chapala and Megh, the Logistics Cluster, through UNHAS, has facilitated two airlifts from Nairobi to Djibouti on behalf of IOM. The cargo consists of 48.1 metric tons of shelter, protection and WASH items, which will be airli ed from Djibouti to Socotra over a total of three rotations.