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...
57 year old Mark Haugh,told officials he could only walk a few steps without discomfort and would be left bed bound for up to five days a week due to mobility issues.An investigation opened up on him when he was spotted strolling through Bristol Airport.Eventually they discovered an action filled holiday photo album,with pictures of him on the back of a Jet ski and balancing on a perilious rope bridge at Giant's Causeway in Ireland.He was given a community order and Judge Mark Horton said ''One of the huge difficulties about people who abuse the benefit system,attracts huge public attention,huge public disapproval and enormous bitterness.People who pay their taxes,when they discover that someone who has a disability is known to go on foreign holidays,on jet skis and cycling,they come to the conclusion that their position in the society is being abused by people like you,that is the reason you are in court.It is not acceptable in the society.It was also appalling not to disclose it.Mark Haugh had claimed 7,032 pounds as Disability Living Allowance between January 2012 and April last year.The allowance for these year stop coming after the Department for work and Pensions seized some of his holiday snaps and spotted him strolling through Bristol Airport.Mark's Haugh lawyer claimed Mark legitimately claimed for benefit initially but had failed to inform the authorities of an improvement in his condition.That he has no plan to spend the money on ill gotten gains on a luxury lifestyle.He pleaded guilty to receiving the over payment by failing to notify a change in circumstances.He was given a community order with six month's supervision to help him with employment and training,problem solving and debt advice.More photos below. 
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