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...
An election was conducted by the traders under their registered Union where Comrade Kingsley Ogunor emerged as the Chairman and the President of the Central body called Ladipo Auto Central Executive Committee,LACEC.However,Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court Lagos,nullified the election and ordered Ogunor and his executive not to parade themselves as leaders of the market union.The judgment followed the suit filed by aggrieved members of the union over the outcome of the election.The suit was filed by Leonard Onwughalu and others against Kingsley Ogunor and his executives.The plaintiffs asked the court to declare as follows,that the activities carried out by the defendants outside the union's constitution as registered with the Corperate Affairs Commission were unconstitutional,illegal,null and void.That the election and assumption of office by the defendants as executives of the union was unconstitutional,null and void.An order to dissolve the executives and appoint board of trustees of the union to operate and direct the affairs of the union and to conduct a new election.All the reliefs sought by the plaintiffs were granted by justice Yunusa.Following the judgment,defeated contestant on LACEC presidential election,Felix Okoro has given notice to LACEC,BOT,his intention to take over as the president of LACEC with seven days.
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