Recent UN data has shown a spike in African migrants arriving in Yemen.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) confirmed that 93,526 migrants have arrived in the war-torn country between January and October this year.
Roughly half of them arrived during the first seven months of this year.
IOM’s DTM confirmed that while the number of those who managed to reach the coasts of Yemen continued to soar, those who returned to their country did not exceed 5,000 in 2023.
Out of the 200,000 migrants, approximately 43,000 migrants are stranded across the country.
Since early 2022, IOM has supported more than 5,700 stranded migrants and victims of trafficking to safely return to their home countries from Yemen..
So far in 2023, the IOM has assisted 5,631 migrants, including 5,572 Ethiopians, to return home.