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...
According to an official election results announced today friday,President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza has won for the third term in office.Nkurunziza won 69.41% of the vote in tuesday's vote.The election commission said ''This is the first round victory''.Nkurunziza's candidacy was denounced as unconstitutional by the opposition and provoked months of protests and an attempted coup when he traveled out of Burundi.Although eight candidates were on the ballot paper for the presidential polls,most of them withdrew from the race,with the closure of most independent media preventing them from campaigning.A lot of people took to the street to demonstrate against his third term return,most of them lost their lives in the process,but their death seems for nothing,now their President is back for the third term.
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