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 All Progressive Congress {APC} has described the appointment as totally unacceptable and the highest level of indiscipline and treachery,the conduct of today tuesday's inauguration of the National Assembly that led to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representative respectively.In a statement issued in Abuja today tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary,Alhaji Lai Mohammed said ''The party is supreme and its interest is suprerior to that of it's individual members.Consequently,the APC leadership is meeting in a bid to re-establish discipline in the party and to meet out the necessary sanctions to all those involved in what is nothing but a monumental act of indiscipline and betrayal to subject the party to ridicle and create obstacle's for the new administration.There cam be no higher level of treachery,disloyalty and insincerity within any party''.Meanwhile,the APC has asked all its loyal senators elect to please report to the senate to be Sworn in,in order to discharge their constitutional duties.
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