Houthi west-coast offensive drives thousands of Yemenis to flee to Djibouti and Aden

Fighting on Yemen's west coast, where Houthi forces launched an offensive to seize the port of Mokha, has driven thousands to flee by boat to Djibouti.

• Djiboutian officials in the port town of Obock are preparing for the arrival of up to 10,000 refugees.
• The UN's migration agency said people were travelling on overcrowded boats and arriving with very limited food and water.
• UNHCR counted about 3,000 arrivals in Djibouti in less than a week, after reporting about 100,000 people displaced inside Yemen.
• Mohammed Nasser al-Sufi, director of Aden's displaced-camps executive unit, said the Al-Firdaws camp has received 218 to 220 families, with more arriving.
• The UN said more than 120,000 Yemenis have been displaced by the recent surge in fighting along the Red Sea coast.
• The reports state that the 2022 UN-brokered truce has collapsed and airstrikes are escalating in the conflict.
• One refugee, Ibrahim Issa, said he fled the front-line town of Dhubab with his family.
• The government's executive unit reported 158,109 registered displaced people across eight provinces since early September.
• The UN and IOM confirmed over 21,000 families have fled since August, many displaced multiple times.