Humanitarian Catastrophe Looms in Yemen with 3.3+ Mln Displaced Since Crisis Began
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Yemen has become the world's largest humanitarian crisis. In total, 18.8 million people need humanitarian or protection assistance.
Since 2015, of the 3.3 million people who have been forced to flee their homes to seek safety, two million remain displaced and nearly 1.3 million have returned to the governorates they originated from. With no end in sight for the conflict, displacement is set to continue to increase.
Years of poverty, underdevelopment, environmental decline, intermittent conflict, and weak rule of law - including widespread violations of human rights - have contributed to over five years of crisis.
The breakdown of basic services and institutions, such as hospitals, galloping poverty, environmental decline and collapse of the agricultural sector have all further compounded the situation.
The conflict and its economic consequences are also driving a food crisis. Over 17 million people are currently food insecure, of whom 6.8 million require immediate food assistance.
The crisis in Yemen is not only characterized by conflict but also by natural disaster-induced large-scale displacement and complex external migration flows and mobility patterns.
Yemen has a complex migratory status, as a country of origin, transit, and destination.
Regular migration flows between the Horn of Africa and Yemen have surged, with 10,000 migrants entering the country each month, as a result of the complex realities of political and economic dynamics in the region. The number of migrants has overwhelmed available resources.
In addition to those staying in Yemen, many migrants transit under alarming conditions through war-torn Yemen to Saudi Arabia in search of work, and are often victims of smuggling rings and other criminal networks.
Source: International Organization for Migration, Edited by website team
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