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...
On monday,the Administrative assistant to Foreign minister Augustine Ngafuan,died from the deadly virus.Her husband,a staffer in the office of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,is currently under quarantine.The names of the officials were withheld because the government has not officially notified the public about the cases,that is so close to the Liberian presidency.Minister Ngafuan's office is two floors below the floor now being used as the president's office.They are suspecting that the victim must have contracted the Ebola virus through her sister who had previously died of the virus.A praying woman {pastor} who laid hands on the victim sister had also died.On wednesday both the deceased Administrative Assistant in Minister Ngafuan's office and her husband had been told not to return to the office until after 21 days. 
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