Yemen sees fresh displacement after five years of conflict
After fleeing latest fighting in country’s north, Yemenis describe harrowing route to safety and dire conditions on arrival as humanitarian aid struggles to meet needs. By UNHCR staff in Marib, Yemen Nasra described the scene of chaos and panic during the night in...
Opinion: We need to tell the world of the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”
By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Yemen Representative I am the new UNHCR Representative in Yemen, writing this from our base in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital city at the foot of Mount Nuqum in the western part of the country. I was last here in 2013 during what became a very...
Somali refugees return home from Yemen in latest UNHCR-facilitated departure
More than 4,800 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commenced an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. In the latest departure, a boat carrying 114 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden on Monday and...