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

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.

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

UN, IOM and NGO regional agencies, along with the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, met together in Nairobi on 9 December to review lessons learnt from the regional approach in 2015, share updates on the Gulf of Aden strategy and discuss ongoing scenario planning.

More than 1200 boats arrived along the shores of Djibouti and Somalia since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen.

During the reporting period (25-31 August 2015), a total of three boats carrying 96 individuals arrived in Somalia from Yemen to Berbera.

Data on sea arrivals in Yemen show that despite the ongoing conflict some 92,446 people arrived in Yemen by boat in 2015. This is one of the highest annual totals of the past decade. A full two thirds arrived since March 2015 when the conflict began.