Overview
- A fast Houthi push along Yemen’s Red Sea coast in mid-September has driven more than 100,000 people from their homes and led roughly 2,400–2,800 documented sea arrivals in Djibouti.
- Djibouti says the influx has exceeded national capacity and warns arrivals could reach about 10,000 as authorities and UN agencies register and move new arrivals to sites such as the Markazi refugee village.
- UN agencies and IOM report that most arrivals are women, children and older people who reach shore exhausted with little belongings, and they are issuing urgent appeals for funding and support.
- Humanitarian access is limited by active fighting, damaged roads and port infrastructure including Al Mokha, complicating relief convoys and risking longer shipping reroutes that would delay supplies.
- Beyond immediate needs for shelter, food, water and medical care, the offensive risks wider regional disruption by threatening the Bab el‑Mandeb shipping corridor and straining logistics for responses to other crises.