At least 3,700 Yemeni refugees arrive in Djibouti since September

At least 3,700 refugees from Yemen, mostly women and children, have arrived in Djibouti since September. Most of them reached the northern region of Obock amid the escalation in Yemen, Deutsche Welle reports. Pressure on Djibouti In September, the Iran-backed Houthis seized the Yemeni island of Perim in the narrowest part of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The strait connects the southern entrance to the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden, and Perim is located about 20 kilometers from Djibouti. In early October, Yemen’s armed forces and their Saudi Arabian allies launched a counteroffensive. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees…