Offensive by Yemen’s Houthis threatens IDP camps in Marib

Push by rebels for oil-rich Marib threatens to displace at least 385,000 people, according to the UN migration agency.

Already displaced once in Yemen’s grinding civil war, Mohammed Ali Saleh fled with his pregnant wife and their three children to central Marib province last year to seek refuge in a region that has known relative peace and stability because of well-protected oil fields nearby. But now the fighting is moving towards them again, threatening hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the governorate – home to about 800,000 IDPs. Iran-linked Houthi rebels are pushing to capture the province from Yemen’s internationally recognised government in an attempt to complete their control over the northern half of Yemen.