In the past year, nearly half of the 176,000 people who have fled Yemen’s conflict have gone to the Horn of Africa, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Many are Africans returning to their countries of origin, but about 26,000 are Yemenis with nowhere else to turn. In an unusual development, people from war-torn Yemen are fleeing to a region whose own citizens have been scattered over the world by decades of conflict -- Somaliland.
Refugees in Somaliland
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A Yemeni refugee shows his home, which he also calls al-Shaibani Restaurant, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
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A Yemeni refugee pulls up the mattress in his home to show his bed. He also operates al-Shaibani Restaurant in his home, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
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The exterior of al-Shaibani Restaurant, located in the home of a Yemeni refugee, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 30, 2016.
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Huda Haroon Awjama, manager of the Peaceful Coexistence Center, holds a child of a refugee, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, April 3, 2016. The Center provides language and literacy classes for both refugees and Somalilanders, and is a place for people to gather.