The UN refugee agency UNHCR has expressed deep concern for the safety and security of civilians in the governorate of Marib, in Yemen, including over half a million of displaced people. As fighting shifts closer to densely populated areas, people's lives are in danger and access to humanitarian aid is becoming harder, the agency said.
Some 63 refugees from the Horn of Africa arrived in Italy on Friday from Ethiopian refugee camps as part of a humanitarian corridor project.
Some Middle Eastern passengers will no longer be able to purchase tickets for, or board Belavia flights from Turkey to Belarus. In Poland far-right nationalists march in Warsaw, protesting the build-up of migrants on the border; and Finland reports 30 migrant arrivals from Belarus.
Almost 5,000 Ethiopian migrants are stuck in Yemen while awaiting a chance to return home safely. This week about 300 of them are scheduled to leave Aden for Addis Abeba on two humanitarian flights run by IOM.
Dozens of migrants from Ethiopia were flown home on Tuesday from Yemen. This was the first repatriation flight from the war-torn nation since 2019, according to the IOM.
A boat thought to have been carrying between 160 and 200 people overturned at the weekend off the coast of Yemen. The bodies of 25 migrants have already been recovered and as many as 175 migrants are still missing.
The International Organization for Migration is supporting the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Yemen and said it welcomes the government's decision to also immunize migrants.
The UN migration agency IOM says the death toll has risen to 42 after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti. Sixteen children were among the dead.
At least 39 people have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti in East Africa. The UN migration agency IOM said 16 of the victims were children.
The UN migration agency, regional governments and 38 partner countries have launched an appeal for 99 million dollars in aid for over half a million migrants in the Horn of Africa and Yemen.
IOM UK recently set up an online conference to showcase migrant women's resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference came a week after International Women's Day, and featured five women who had migrated to the UK from various parts of the world.
Houthi rebels in Yemen have admitted that their forces had caused a blaze killing 45 people at a migrant center earlier in March. More than a dozen soldiers and officials will be tried in court.