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...
Justice Adeniyi Ademola,a Federal High Court Judge sitting in Abuja yesterday thursday,gave an order of the removal of a member of the House of Representative Idu Godwin,who is representing Onitsha North/South Federal constituency from the house and directed the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC},to withdraw the certificate of return issued to him and issue a fresh certificate of return to Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu who was declared the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} at the April 11,2015velection.The judge gave the order while delivering judgement on a pre-election suit instituted by the plaintiff.The court also ordered the National Assembly specifically the House of Representatives to swear in the plaintiff {Lynda Ikeazu} as a member of the house.Lynda Chuba Ikeazu,who won the PDP primary election conducted on December 7,2014 had in the suit challenged her substitution with Idu Godwin by the Party.
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