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...
It was reported today monday that the last four cases of Ebola in Liberia were discharged from a treatment clinic in the capital Monrovia today.Meaning there were no more confirmed carriers of the deadly virus in the country.The four men that were released today were part of an outbreak of the virus in Margibi county just outside Monrovia discovered in late June.Two other confirmed cases have since died.We thank God for these goodness because thousands of people had died from these virus.We should not forget that May 9,Liberia was declared Ebola virus free country but few weeks after the declaration,new cases of Ebola sprung up through a dog.
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