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...
The inquest T.B Joshua was trying to challenge was set up by the Lagos state Government to unravel the cause of the September 12,2014 building collapse which killed 116 people most of South African nationality.T.B Joshua had dragged the coroner court and the coroner,Mr Oyetade Komolafe,before Justice Okunnu of the Lagos High Court Ikeja,asking for a judicial review of the proceedings.In delivering her ruling,Justice Okunnu held that ''Although the coroner's court cannot be sued,Mr Oyetade Komolafe himself can be sued in his own capacity as a coroner.The court needed to resolve the issue whether the coroner has acted contrary to the rules of natural justice by not granting the applicants a fair hearing and whether he has exceeded the scope of a coroner's court.Sections 26 and 27 of the Coroners System Law of Lagos state 2007,empowered the coroner to summon any witness to assist him in his fact finding mission.There was nothing unsual in the summons extended to Joshua.I find therefore the present application,lacks merit and has failed in its entirely.It is accordingly dismissed''.
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