Nearly 50,000 Yemenis flee as Houthis advance toward Red Sea strait

Nearly 50,000 Yemeni civilians displaced by Houthi advances, forced to flee their homes and undertake dangerous journeys to overcrowded IDP camps.

Along the Red Sea coast of Yemen, nearly fifty thousand people have been uprooted by the advance of Houthi forces, joining a long and sorrowful human tradition of flight from violence toward uncertain refuge. Families who once held ordinary lives have been reduced to carrying what they can, walking for days toward camps that were never meant to hold them. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait — a chokepoint of global commerce — now sits at the center of a crisis whose consequences ripple outward, even as those most affected think only of finding their children, their parents, a place to rest.

Nearly 50,000 Yemenis flee as Houthis advance toward Red Sea strait

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