Marib: 146 displaced families arrive in October, IOM distributes 1,900 shelters

A recent government report revealed that 146 displaced families from several Yemeni governorates arrived in Ma'rib Governorate (eastern Yemen) last October.

The Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps in Marib said that during last July, it received 146 new displaced families consisting of 876 people, distributed among its sites in the governorate center, with 90 families, 43 families in Al Wadi District, 7 families in Raghwan, and 6 families in Harib District.

The report indicated that the total number of displaced persons who arrived in Marib Governorate during the first ten months of this year amounted to 1,326 new displaced families consisting of 7,210 people, who came to it from various governorates and were distributed across most of its directorates.

The report pointed out that the displacement movement to Marib Governorate is continuing after the conditions of these families have deteriorated for several reasons, most notably (arbitrary arrests - illegal prosecutions and harassment - child recruitment - economic reasons) in their main areas. These families flock monthly in search of safety, tranquility, living in peace and searching for better ways to live.

He pointed out that 64 families representing (384 people) moved during the same month from rented homes in the governorate to camps due to the deterioration of economic conditions.

Meanwhile, the Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps announced that the International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) distributed 1,900 shelters to displaced families in five displacement camps in the governorate.

In a statement on its official Facebook page, it said that the Migration Organization distributed 1,900 shelters to displaced families in the camps of Al Nour, Al Set, Al Hama, Al Khasif, and Al Ramsa, with funding from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund.

The Assistant Director of the Executive Unit, Khaled Al-Shajni, confirmed that the gap in needs “is still large and is growing wider on a daily basis, and requires more permanent interventions, as thousands of displaced families suffer from a lack of adequate shelter amid harsh living conditions, and the onset of the harsh winter season, and they cannot find shelter to take refuge in.”

The statement indicated that the governorate's sub-shelter cluster plan aimed to meet the need for only 3,500 transitional shelters for the current year 2024, while there are 24.5 thousand displaced families living in deteriorating emergency shelters for more than five years and are in dire need of shelter solutions, while 9,236 families live in mud buildings, old, or incomplete, and transitional shelters, and need shelter maintenance support.