Yemen Population Movement -2026 was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Thursday, 3 September 2026 at 00:00 UTC. The event is classified as a other incident incident with a severity rating of Severe, and was detected through IFRC.

Recorded by the IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) as an emergency a national society responded to. Unlike a warning or a news report, this means a humanitarian response was actually mounted.

Where this happened

The incident is located in Yemen (Asia), whose capital is Sana'a. Historically, Yemen is most affected by conflict, floods, epidemics and droughts. You can follow every incident recorded in this country, updated live, on the Yemen incident tracker.

Approximate coordinates of the reported event are 15.600°, 48.500°. The marker on the map above shows this position; for news-derived reports the location reflects the place named in media coverage and may represent a district or city rather than an exact site.

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Data and verification

This record was generated automatically from IFRC and de-duplicated against our archive. Early reports for any incident can be revised: locations get refined, magnitudes are recalculated and impact figures change as assessments arrive. We deliberately do not publish casualty numbers unless an official source states them. The original source report is linked at the top of this page.

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Timeline and sources

Officially recorded

An official record exists from IFRC. That confirms the event was recorded; figures quoted from news reports are not confirmed by it.

How statuses are decided · the number of reports is never treated as confirmation.

  1. · received · event time 3 Sep 2026, 00:00 UTC
    First report Humanitarian agency report

    First recorded from IFRC.

    IFRC ↗

  2. · received
    Source revised Humanitarian agency report

    IFRC revised its report: "YEM: Other - 09-2026 - Yemen-Conflict Escalation, Mass Dispalacement and Health Impact" became "Yemen Population Movement -2026".

    IFRC ↗

Times are when this site received each report, in UTC; the event time is shown where the source gave one. Copies of one syndicated story count as one report.

Conditions at the time

0mm
Rainfall that day
41°C
Maximum temperature
28°C
Minimum temperature
31km/h
Peak wind speed

No rainfall was recorded that day, and the temperature peaked at 41°C, and winds reached 31 km/h.

Weather reanalysis for this location and date via Open-Meteo.