Yemen: Refugees

(asked on 19th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have left Yemen as refugees since March 2015.


Answered by
Desmond Swayne Portrait
Desmond Swayne
This question was answered on 25th February 2016

Between March 2015 and 15 February 2016, the UN estimates that 171,585 people have arrived in Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Oman from Yemen, including Yemeni refugees and asylum-seekers, and people of other nationalities seeking protection.

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