1,400 Yemenis flee to Djibouti within 24 hours
Yemeni refugees arrive in Obock, Djibouti, within 24 hours as Houthis tighten their grip on the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
In a single day, 1,400 Yemeni refugees arrived in Djibouti, according to Djibouti's minister of economy and finance, Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh. The influx comes amid escalating conflict in Yemen, with the UN's International Organization for Migration reporting that at least 46,000 people have been displaced in the country since last week, and 76,000 since July.
The Yemeni government's Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps disclosed that 1,367 families were displaced in the provinces of Taiz, Al-Hudaydah, and Lahj alone on September 8.
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