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| Families from the northern Yemeni city of Amran, 50 kilometers north of Sanaa, take refugee in the capital, on July 13, 2014 after fleeing their home as battles between the Yemeni army and Shiite Muslim rebels intensifies. |
BERBERA, Somalia — As Adra Sarraf held a crying baby outside a makeshift refugee camp in the Gulf of Aden, she wondered whether she and her four children would lose their lives to hunger, or terror. “We’ve no food to eat here,” said the 33-year-old mother of four. “My children have been surviving on water for the last two weeks.”
Around 100,000 people have fled the civil war that erupted in Yemen in late March. Sarraf is one of the 28,000 Yemeni refugees who crossed the gulf and settled in Somalia.
“It’s hell here because we’ll starve and finally die,” said Sarraf. “But in Yemen the bullet will kill you within a second. So we prefer being in Somalia than Yemen, because we hope that aid workers might come to our rescue before we die.”
Humanitarian groups are struggling to assist the refugees, but the flood of people is overwhelming, especially since many Somalis, too, are now returning home to escape Yemen's war.
Globalpost
