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...
Today friday,it was reported that a gunman opened fire on students after walking into a high school in Potiskum in north east Nigeria,critically injuring six people.The gunman was accompanied by another attacker also suspected to be a Boko Haram member.Eyewitness,Musa Ahmed,a student at the College of Administration and Business sturdies said ''We came out from lectures when we saw two people at the gate,he brought out a gun and started shooting.The sucide bomber detonated the bomb killing himself alone but six of the students were shot by the man with the gun.
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