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...
Patrick Sawyer,a consultant for Liberia's finance ministry in his 40's,collapsed on arrival at the Lagos airport on July 20.He was put in isolation at the first consultants hospital in Obalende,and he died on friday.So during a news conference held yesterday by Nigeria Centre for Disease control,Lagos state,it was said by the Health Commissioner Jide Idris that ''The private hospital was demobilized {evacuated} and the primary source of infection is eliminated.The decontamination process in all the effected ares has commenced''..
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