00:00This is the second time in her life that Rahma Said has been displaced by war.
00:04Originally from Somalia, she fled her homeland 30 years ago to Yemen, where she made a new
00:10life.
00:11Now, together with her 12-year-old son, she has had to flee again.
00:15Fishermen helped her cross the Babal Mandeb Strait to Djibouti after the fighting broke
00:20out.
00:22Two warring factions came and started shooting at each other.
00:26It started with gunshots, then rockets, and then airstrikes.
00:30That's when people started to flee.
00:35Like Rahma, most people here are stuck in limbo.
00:39Obok, the closest Djiboutian town to Yemen, which lies on the other side of the Gulf of
00:43Aden, is where most of the refugees end up.
00:47Many of the boats here belong to Yemeni fishermen, who fled with their families.
00:51One man tells us he carried 25 people in his boat alone.
00:55Caught between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels who have taken control of the
01:00area, crossing the Gulf was the only way out.
01:03In just three weeks, some 4,000 people have arrived here.
01:07This is the place where people are staying who have just come from Yemen, as they're waiting
01:11for tents to stay in.
01:13Some of them tell us they just came with the clothes that they're wearing, while others were
01:16able to bring belongings and even livestock across the Gulf.
01:20Now people here are sleeping on mats, just with very basic amenities such as cooking utensils
01:25and a little water to wash.
01:28Sondrine Desamour, who heads the UNHCR's operations here, says that many arrive traumatized and malnourished
01:35due to the war.
01:36From the very first day, we saw the arrival of small boats, fishermen boats, with their
01:43entire family members.
01:45However, right now we understand less boats are coming.
01:49The past couple of days have been the only days where we have had very few arrivals or
01:54no arrivals.
01:56Mainly, as many of them have family members, they have told us they have no more fuel to
02:00get here.
02:01Others, it's security reasons, they're not able to get to the shores to get here.
02:05This camp, or village as they call it, has been hosting refugees since 2015, when the
02:10war in Yemen first erupted.
02:123,000 refugees already lived here, but now the camp is stretched beyond its capacity.
02:19Assisting the new arrivals is Dikra Mohammed Said.
02:22A community organizer and refugee herself, she fled Yemen in 2015 and has been here ever since.
02:29She says the war she fled wasn't like this, with drones and airstrikes.
02:33She still remembers the pain of leaving Yemen and starting from scratch.
02:39Some of the refugees who came were extremely exhausted.
02:43We helped them and brought things from our homes.
02:46Those of us who have been here since 2015 did whatever we could.
02:49We gave them whatever we had at home and tried to help, biscuits and juice.
02:54And for those we couldn't give these things to, we at least brought them a container of water.
02:59The new refugees need more support, she says, like the support she had when she first got here.
03:06There's need for more schools and other facilities.
03:09Today, at least some tents have arrived, and a few families are fortunate to move from the dusty transit hall.
03:18Yet not everyone is lucky enough to get a tent.
03:21Rahma and her son have been waiting for 20 days, and they're still not on the latest lists.
03:27Displaced from their homes, seeking shelter, enough water and food, these people are fighting for the basics.
03:33And they know that it might be a long time before they can even consider returning to Yemen.
