People displaced by the civil war in Yemen
are taking speedboats and ferries across the Gulf of Aden to reach neighboring African countries where refugee camps are already stretched
thin, raising fears that prolonged fighting could strain humanitarian
resources. Somaliland, a self-declared country in northern Somalia, has received
270 migrants from Yemen. A further 389 people have arrived in Puntland,
another Somali breakaway state, according to the IOM. Djibouti, Somaliland and Puntland already host tens of thousands of
refugees, according to the UNHCR. Djibouti is home to about 24,000
refugees, while Somaliland hosts roughly 9,000 displaced people. Somaliland’s foreign minister, Mohamed Yonis, said he is expecting to
receive up to 2,000 Yemeni refugees and is in talks with the EU and
USAid about providing assistance for them. “It will be a challenge – we
have a lot of Ethiopian refugees in Somaliland, we have a lot of
internally displaced people. But we hope the international community
will come to the rescue,” said Yonis. Read More
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