Highlights
Since the beginning of the crisis, over 950,000 IDPs and conflict-affected persons have benefitted from IOM’s WASH activities in Yemen.
During the reporting period, IOM provided transportation and post-arrival assistance to 305 Ethiopians including four accompanied children returning to Ethiopia from Obock, Djibouti. Since the beginning of the crisis, nearly 2,000 Ethiopians have returned from Yemen having transited through Djibouti.
In August, 2,735 migrants in Aden, Al Hudaydah, and Sana’a received daily food assistance from IOM. Since the beginning of the crisis, IOM has provided 12,260 migrants with daily food assistance.
Situation Overview
The security situation in August further deteriorated as airstrikes intensified all over the country. Armed conflicts also resumed/intensified in Marib and Taizz further spreading to neighboring Al Jawf and Ibb governorates. Fighting was also reported along Yemeni-Saudi Arabian borders where both civilian and military casualties were reported. In late August, the UN estimated that there have been around 10,000 conflict-related deaths since the start of the war.
Humanitarian workers face insecurity and movement restrictions. Access has been further restricted following the intensification of conflict after the peace talks broke down at the beginning of August.
The 10th Task Force on Population Movement (TFPM) report identifies a population of concern, in connection with the ongoing conflict, of nearly 3.2 million individuals. This is composed of over 2.2 million IDPs who remain in a situation of displacement across 21 governorates, mainly in Taizz, Hajjah, and Sana’a, and nearly 950,000 returnees in 19 governorates, mainly in Aden, Amanat Al Asimah and Taizz.
Since the beginning of August 2016, the security situation in Ethiopia, specifically in the Amhara and Oromiya Regional States, has deteriorated following various demonstrations. Consequently, travel restrictions were placed, resulting in delays in evacuating Ethiopian migrants from Yemen via Djibouti. Amhara and Oromiya regional states are the main areas of origin of the Ethiopian evacuees from Yemen.