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 Ahmat Negat,spokesman for Muslim Seleka rebels,said today that at least 25 people have died in a collapse at a gold mine,60 km north of the Central African Republic town of Bam Bari.The mine is originally owned by Canada's Axmin but was overrun by rebels more than a year ago and it now forms part of an illicit economy driving sectarian conflict in the country.The incident happened yesterday thursday but they are suspecting it was 27 artisan miners that were buried i the collapsed mine,but only 25 bodies were retrieved.According to Georges Yacinth Oubaouba,a senior official in the ministry of mines said ''Nobody from our service is on the ground to regulate the miners,so they dug without any rules,lower than 3 meters which got dangerous and with the rain,there can be collapses.
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