Houthi Red Sea advance drives 2,000 Yemeni refugees to Djibouti, cuts Bab el-Mandeb traffic

A Houthi push along Yemen's Red Sea coast has driven over 2,000 displaced people to Djibouti and sharply reduced ship traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb strait.

• The UN said Sunday that more than 2,000 people fleeing fighting between Houthi rebels and Yemeni forces arrived in Djibouti this week.
• Houthi forces seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday, completing their takeover of Yemen's remaining Red Sea coast.
• At least 76,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen since July, a figure the UN said quadrupled in the past week.
• Ship transits through the Bab el-Mandeb strait fell from about 35 to 10 daily over three days, according to a Djiboutian maritime source.