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...
According to sources,Nelson Mandela's widow was moved to say something,and in between broke the customary mourning period to call on the Nigerian government and international community to move to find the 234 school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.Graca Machel Mandela says ''The Nigerian government has a responsibility to protect it's citizens,and keep them safe.If the world can mobilise all the means possible to search for a plane carrying 239 passengers,certainly it can also mobilise the means to find our girls.They deserve nothing less.I decided to break the restrictions of my mourning because silence is not an option.I know however,that Madiba will understand and approve''.The mourning was to be for one year but was reduce to six months for her. 
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