⚡️🇾🇪🇸🇦 — More than 200,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since renewed fighting broke out in recent weeks, with the UN's International Organization for Migration describing the crisis as alarming and warning that funding to help those in need is running out, according to Reuters.

IOM data released Wednesday shows 201,217 displaced people, or 33,776 households — nearly all of them having fled since September 1. The figure surged from 76,000 in mid-September to over 145,000 by the end of the month, and now stands above 200,000.

Ta'iz is the hardest-hit governorate with 114,708 displaced people, 57% of the total. Lahj follows with 42,264, Aden with 20,814, Abyan with 9,030, and Al Hodeidah with 8,244. Displacement now spans 10 governorates, and more than 3,700 people have fled by sea to Djibouti.

IOM Director General Amy Pope said: "People are running for their lives and finding nowhere safe to go. They need a roof, food and safety today. Our teams are on the ground, but the funding is not. I am asking donors to act now, because every day of delay costs lives. Yemen must not become a forgotten crisis."

The UN World Food Programme said Friday that three in four families in parts of Yemen were going hungry from the "absolutely devastating" impact of the fighting. The escalation between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces is the most serious since a UN-brokered truce largely halted cross-border attacks in 2022, with the Houthis seizing Yemen's entire Red Sea coast last month from government forces.

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