Study: 3 million internal refugees in Yemen
English - Friday 19 July 2019 الساعة 04:34 pm
Aden – NewsYemen.net
A recent study carried out by Madar Center for Studies and Research in Aden province revealed an increase in internal and external migration in Yemen, while an estimated 3 million internally displaced refugees.
The study said that the wars in Yemen for a while not as short as the wars between the Yemeni army and the Houthis in Sa'ada province, as well as the army wars with al-Qaeda led to the displacement of residents from entire cities, as happened in 2011 when al-Qaeda took control of Abyan province, and the city of Mukalla the capital of Hadramout province.
The five-year-war between the Houthis and Yemeni Legitimate Forces has displaced large numbers of people leaving their original homeland to escape the war that has taken place in a number of cities and Yemen's provinces in an unprecedented manner.
The study pointed out that the forced migration phenomenon and displacement in Yemen are one of the most complex and social phenomena that are related to the various aspects of social life and become a public issue in the society, especially with the continued recurrence of conflicts in Yemen and the consequent major changes in the society.
It pointed out that the phenomenon of forced migration in Yemen is a double phenomenon, whether Yemeni emigration from the other countries, or migration from the Horn of Africa, specifically from Somalia and Ethiopia, as well as forced internal displacement due to ongoing wars in the Yemeni society.
It also pointed out for almost 30 years, Yemen has been receiving large numbers of migrants coming from the Horn of Africa and some other countries, which are being thrown by ships and dhow boats to the Southern Yemeni coasts fleeing their countries because of the conflicts there.
The study noted the forced migration of illegal immigrants to Yemen from the Horn of Africa (Somalia and Ethiopia) due to the wars that have erupted there since the 1990s has added another dimension to the migration movement in Yemen.
This migration coincided with the forcible return of Yemeni immigrants following the 1991 Gulf War. Nearly one million immigrants from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) returned because of the Yemeni government's biased attitude towards Iraqi President Saddam Hussein when he launched the war against Kuwait.
