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Nearly 86,000 flee fighting in Yemen: UN

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:28:00 +0000

Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). File
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Flaring fighting between government forces and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has displaced nearly 86,000 people, the United Nations said Sunday, with the number surging by 10,000 from a day earlier.

Tens of thousands have taken flight in the wake of a week-long Houthi offensive that culminated in the group capturing the remainder of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and several strategic islands, cementing their hold on the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.

“Displacement in Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, has now reached 85,818 people,” the International Organization for Migration said in a statement, a day after putting the number of people displaced since July at 76,000.

The UN agency stressed that more than 82,000 of those displaced had been forced to flee their homes since the start of September, when the Houthis, who have for years controlled large parts of northern Yemen, launched their large-scale offensive against Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces.

The displacements had happened across the west coast and Taiz areas, the IOM said.

Taiz was the hardest-hit, it said, with some 9,280 households, or nearly 56,000 people, displaced from districts in that province alone.

And now, some of those displaced have begun fleeing Yemen altogether, IOM said, pointing out that more than 2,000 people had reached Djibouti.

The UN body told AFP that the first arrivals landed on Thursday evening (September 10, 2026).

Djibouti lies opposite Yemen across the Bab al-Mandab strait, which has become an important artery for Saudi Arabian oil exports after Iran began its blockade on the Strait of Hormuz at the start of the West Asia war.

Those arriving in Djibouti — many of them women and young children — had been transported to a site in Obock where they were receiving assistance, IOM said, warning that “more are expected to flee as fighting intensifies”.

“Behind every number is a family who’s lost everything,” IOM chief Amy Pope said in the statement.

“Many have been displaced multiple times. People are crossing the sea with nothing because they have no other choice left,” she said.

Ms. Pope highlighted that Yemen was a “country torn by poverty and conflict, and it cannot carry this crisis alone”.

“I call on donors to scale up support now, for those arriving in Djibouti and for the communities in Obock receiving them.”

Published – September 13, 2026 10:58 pm IST

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Deaths Of 2 Navy SEALS Killed In Somalia Sea Op “Preventable”, Probe Finds

admin — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:05:15 +0000

Washington, United States:

The deaths of two US Navy SEALs during an operation earlier this year to seize Iranian weapons bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels were “preventable,” an investigation into the incident found.

During the operation — in which the elite troops boarded a vessel off the coast of Somalia in January — one SEAL slipped and fell into the water, while a second jumped in to try to help him.

“Encumbered by the weight of each individual’s gear, neither their physical capability nor emergency supplemental flotation devices, if activated, were sufficient to keep them at the surface,” according to the Navy investigation, which said the incident was “marked by systematic issues” and was “preventable.”

It found that the SEALs were “not well-practised in using their emergency gear,” with some operators saying they had only used their flotation systems once, and others not at all.

Maintenance of the systems also did not meet Navy standards, with the investigation saying it is possible that the SEALs “attempted to activate their emergency devices, yet they somehow failed to activate.”

It noted that the SEALs had not conducted buoyancy tests in theatre, where conditions were different than during training, and that there was conflicting guidance on buoyancy requirements.

The US military conducted a 10-day search for the two SEALs before declaring them deceased.

Yemen’s Houthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in attacks they say are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza — a significant international security challenge that threatens a major shipping lane.

The United States has carried out frequent air strikes on the Houthis in a bid to degrade their ability to target shipping and has also sought to seize weapons before they reach the rebels, but their attacks have persisted.

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Yemen’s Houthis Say They Target Two US Warships In Red Sea

admin — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:40:41 +0000

Houthi rebels said that US ships were targeted with a number of naval missiles and drones.

Cairo:

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis carried out a military operation in which they targeted two U.S. warship destroyers in the Red Sea, the group’s military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, said in a televised speech on Tuesday.

He said the ships were targeted with a number of naval missiles and drones.

Houthis’ Red Sea attacks have disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa, and stoked fears that the Israel-Hamas war could spread to destabilise the wider Middle East.

Houthi militants have repeatedly launched drones and missiles against international commercial shipping since mid-November, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians against Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

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