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 the World Health Organisation {W.H.O},they confirmed yesterday friday that there is an outbreak of plagues that has killed 40 people out of 119 confirmed cases in Madagascar since late August and there is a risk of the disease spreading rapidly in the capital.''So far two cases and one death have been recorded in the capital Antananarivo but these figures could climb quickly due to the city's high population density and the weakness of the healthcare system.The situation is further complicated by the high level of resistance to Deltamrthrin,an insecticide used to control fleas,that has been observed in the country.The plague is a bacterial/disease and is mainly spread from one rodent to another by fleas.Humans bitten by an infected flea usually develop a bubonic form of plague,which swells the lymph node and can be treated with antibiotics''.More photos below. 
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