YEMEN FIGHTING PUSHES NEARLY 3,000 TO DJIBOUTI IN LESS THAN A WEEK- UN. (PHOTO).
Yemen fighting pushes nearly 3,000 to Djibouti in less than a week: UN Nearly 3,000 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti in less than a week as escalating violence drives growing displacement within the country and across its borders, the UN refugee agency said Friday. “Refugees continue to arrive by boat through Obock, Khor Angar, Moulhoule and Godoria after difficult journeys in small vessels,” UNHCR representative in Djibouti Sandrine Desamours told reporters in Geneva, Anadolu Agency reported. More than half of those crossing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait are women and children, while some families have been displaced for a second time after previously fleeing Yemen during the 2015 crisis and later returning. UNHCR is preparing for at least 10,000 new arrivals but warned that capacity is rapidly diminishing. Markazi refugee village, designed for 5,000 people, was already hosting more than 2,700 Yemenis and 1,500 Eritreans. More than 100,000 people have also been displaced ins...
High court in Port Harcourt.Ahoada East high,the capital of Rivers state in Southern Nigeria was razed today after a bomb explosion this morning.The bombers are yet to be identified.The bombed court belongs to Justice CN Wali,the judge who on 16 December last year made an interim order barring Evans Bipi,a member of the House of Assembly,from parading himself as the speaker of the house.Bipi has been a contender for the position of speaker of the Assembly,since an aborted attempt in November to unseat the authentic speaker,Amachree.According to reports from Port Harcourt,the court was billed to continue the case today,when it was bombed.The PDP stated that it's legal team from Abuja and Lagos,had arrived the court premises only to discover it had been bomb.The ruling APC has accused the PDP for the bombing saying ''we are aware that the present PDP in Rivers state under chief Wike is violence prone but we wish to reiterate that no amount of violence and intimidation will cause us to surrender the mandate freely given to us by the Rivers state people to a group that have demostrated total disdain to democratic principle''.APC State chairman,Davies Ibiamu Ikanga condemed the bombing,saying that it demostrated the desperation by the PDP to turn Rivers state into a theatre of violence.
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