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...
8 year old Adou Ouattara was found in a suitcase at a Spainish border,during scanning,has reunited with his mother.According to a statement from the city of Ceuta ''He was being cared for at a youth centre since border police discovered him on 7th May 2015 in the suit case of a Moroccan woman''.His father who is said to have planned the exercise was arrested for trying to smuggle the young boy,hoowever sources say he is set to be released.His father's lawyer said the father knew nothing of the suitcase plan,believing his son was to be brought into Spain by a car with a visa he had paid for.Police in Ceuta had found eight year old Adou Ouattara curled up and covered inside a suitcase without air vents at a border checkpoint on May 7.The suitcase containing Adou was being carried through a pedestrain border crossing by a 19 year old woman who identity has not been released,when a security scanner detected the boy inside.Last month officials granted Adou authorization to live in Spain for one year and had been waiting for results of DNA tests before turning him over to his mother Lucie Ouattara,who lives legally in Spain's Canary Islands off the Moroccan coast.Adou was reunited with his mother yesterday monday after tests proved they were related.More photos below. 
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