UNHCR & IOM will partner to secure multi-government buy-in to operationalize the joint Proposal for Strategic Action related to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea

UNHCR condemns the 16 March incident in which 42 people, including refugees, were killed when a boat carrying around 145 passengers - among them women and children - came under fire off Yemen’s west coast, near Al Hudaydah.

UNHCR has set up 218 new refugee housing units in Markazi Camp, Djibouti to accommodate the new arrivals. 2,617 refugees are now sheltered in Markazi Camp.

UNHCR, IOM and partners jointly launched the 2016 Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan in Nairobi on 9 December. A total of USD 94.1 million is required for an anticipated 163,980 beneficiaries (refugees, migrants and returnees fleeing from Yemen to Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, and host communities) by December 2016.

While the situation inside Yemen remains unpredictable, the rate of new arrivals from Yemen to the Horn of Africa has slowed significantly in 2016.