| In Brief: Hundreds flee attack in east Kenyan town |
 ISIOLO, 17 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Hundreds of people have fled their homes in Isiolo, eastern Kenya, following an attack by armed men that left 11 people dead in Kisima locality, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) said.
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YEMEN: Most IDPs shun official camps |  HARADH-SANAA, 12 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Reports from various UN agencies operating in northern Yemen indicate that many people displaced by fighting between Houthi-led insurgents and government forces would rather live with host families or in informal camps then in official camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
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YEMEN: Hundreds displaced by fighting on Yemen-Saudi border |  HARADH, 11 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Hundreds of civilians have been fleeing their villages along the border with Saudi Arabia following clashes between Yemen’s Houthi-led Shia insurgents and the Saudi armed forces, according to a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) official.
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ISRAEL: Getting tough on "infiltrators" |  JERUSALEM, 10 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Aid groups and several members of parliament (MPs) are outraged by what seems to be the toughening of Israeli policy towards asylum-seekers illegally entering the country.
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YEMEN: Nearly 100,000 uprooted civilians get WFP food aid |  SANAA, 9 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Nearly 100,000 people displaced over five years of fighting between government troops and Houthi-led Shia rebels have been receiving food aid in the governorates of Saada, Hajja, Amran and Al-Jawf since mid-August, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
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SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution |  DAMASCUS, 4 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - A new pilot project by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria has come up with a novel way of getting food aid to Iraqi refugees. WFP claims the project is a world first.
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SOMALIA-YEMEN: Record high of African arrivals |  SANAA, 1 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The past 10 months saw the highest number of Africans reaching Yemeni shores over figures for the same period in 2008 and 2007, when large numbers began travelling to Yemen by boat, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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SYRIA: Thousands of Iraqi refugees seek resettlement in West |  DAMASCUS, 28 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Iraqi refugee Leila Johanna Isho is determined to make this her last year in Syria. “Most of our family is scattered across Europe and I have a cousin in Canada so we don’t mind where we move, but we have to move because life is becoming too difficult here,” said Isho, sitting with her three children in their cramped single-room apartment in Masakin Berzeh, a working-class neighbourhood of Damascus.
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YEMEN: IDP camp challenges include how to accommodate livestock |  SANAA, 27 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Poor security, lack of basic infrastructure, the increasing numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and how to accommodate livestock are among the challenges facing the government and aid agencies trying to run IDP camps in northern Yemen, according to Nasim Ur-Rehman, a spokesman for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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YEMEN: Learning without chairs |  HARADH, 20 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Fatma Abdullah’s daughters Salma, aged 9, and Khadija, 11, are going to school for the first time in their lives in al-Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate, northern Yemen.
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