{"id":16058,"date":"2018-09-23T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16058"},"modified":"2018-09-23T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T16:22:11","slug":"yemenis-find-refuge-little-else-in-djiboutis-obock-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16058","title":{"rendered":"Yemenis find refuge, little else, in Djibouti&#8217;s Obock camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"85.4556331007\">\n<p>The voyage across the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a narrow stretch of water that separates Africa from the Arabian peninsula, is a journey mainly taken by African migrants seeking work in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom, the world&#8217;s largest oil exporter, is a magnet for people from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/ethiopia.html\">Ethiopia<\/a>\u00a0and other impoverished East African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 111,500\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/refugees.html\">refugees<\/a>\u00a0and migrants crossed into war-ravaged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/yemen.html\">Yemen<\/a>\u00a0in the hope of using it as a transit point to enter\u00a0Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>But <span>as fighting escalates in Yemen<\/span>, scores of Yemenis have clambered aboard tiny fishing vessels taking a route in the opposition direction.<\/p>\n<p><span>Several of the Yemenis who managed to make it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/djibouti.html\">Djibouti<\/a>\u00a0have said they have found themselves hungry and lacking support<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t receive anything but enough to survive from the UN,&#8221; said Ahmed Ali, a resident at the camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have the nutrition needed for our children, the elderly, even us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Andrew Simmons reports from the Obock refugee camp in <span>Djibouti<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voyage across the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a narrow stretch of water that separates Africa from the Arabian peninsula, is a journey mainly taken by African migrants seeking work in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom, the world&#8217;s largest oil exporter, is a magnet for people from\u00a0Ethiopia\u00a0and other impoverished East African countries. Last year, more than 111,500\u00a0refugees\u00a0and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}