On Friday evening Romania’s foreign ministry said that, on 13 November 2026, the repatriation of two Romanian citizens from Yemen was completed, via Egypt. The communique does not name them.

Romania has no diplomatic mission and no consular office in Yemen, and the ministry says the scope for intervention in such places is very limited. The operation ran through the Romanian embassy in Amman, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which handles Romania’s diplomatic and consular representation for Yemen. From the moment the case was reported, the mission made urgent approaches to the Yemeni authorities on the two citizens’ behalf.

Embassy staff stayed in contact with the two people and with the competent foreign authorities, issued the travel documents they needed and helped them buy plane tickets to Romania.

After they reached Egypt, the Romanian embassy in Cairo gave consular help for the airport transit. Headquarters in Bucharest kept in touch with the Romanian authorities responsible for the formalities on entry into the country.

Yemen remains under a level 9/9 travel warning, worded “Leave the country immediately”. The ministry urges Romanians not to go there, and tells anyone already in Yemen to leave as soon as they can. In the warning, the ministry says air and ground military operations and violent street protests are still taking place.

The same warning speaks of a high risk of terrorist attacks, which may be indiscriminate against foreigners, and mentions improvised explosive devices, suicide attacks, kidnappings and armed assaults. It also describes regional security as badly affected by piracy on a large scale, especially in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

The ministry repeats its call for Romanians abroad to register on the E-Consulat portal. The communique gives no arrival time in Romania and does not describe the route beyond the transit through Egypt.

The photograph shows the old city of Sana’a, not the two citizens and not their journey through Egypt. Image: Rod Waddington, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Source: Ministerul de Externe: A fost finalizată repatrierea a doi cetățeni români din Republica Yemen, News.ro.