Around 126 stranded Ethiopian migrants left Marib (northeast of the capital Sanaa) towards the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on a voluntary return flight. This flight is the first in a series of flights supervised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to return 900 Ethiopian migrants to their country over the next month.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated that the number of migrants arriving in Yemen in 2022 began to increase again, reaching about 25,000 migrants in the first four months of 2022. Yemen is a major transit point on the migration route from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia, despite the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis.

Yemeni journalists Abir Abdullah and Wahb Al-Awadi, and photographer Abdullah Al-Hamiri were shot by gunmen in the centre of Taiz while they were filming on Saturday, May 28th.

Aden Electricity Workers’ Trade Union called for a strike on 1 June 2022 in the presidential palace to call on the government to find radical solutions to the deteriorating quality of electricity services in the capital.

Stevedores in the port of Aden launched a strike on April 15th to protest against the arrest of the operations officer of the Office for the Coordination of Stevedores, in the port by a force from the fight against terrorism.