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 the Nigerian police,two masquerade was arrested today in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state for allegedly beating up a passenger Mr Chinonso Ezewaji {who deals on clothing materials} on a commercial motorcycle {popularly known in Nigeria as Okada},and robbing him of N57,000.They beat him,searched him and collected his N57,000.When they left he ran into the bush and when he discovered they have gone some distance,he came out and went to report the police.The incident happened on the Nsukka/Oballa-Afor highway.A police source said policemen were moved to the scene when the victim Chinonso Ezewaji,reported the matter to Nsukka Police Area Command and the two men were arrested.The escorts of the masquerades ran away.''There were eight masquerades,they blocked the Nsukka/Obollo-Afor road and harassed people.The two masquerades arrested however denied collecting the N57,000 from Mr Chinonso,but claimed they know the person who collected the money from the victim.When we searched one of the arrested masquerades,we saw Indian hemp in his pocket''.The two men wearing the masquerade costume were identified as Kenchukwu Eze,a carpenter and Ejiofor Eze,a brick layer.They claimed their colleage Chima Mamah stole the money.They pleaded that if they were released by the police,they will not wear masquerade costume,nor smoke indian hemp again.Mr Ebele Amarizu,Public Relations Officer,Enugu state Police Command confirmed the incident,and narrated the same story i wrote above but added that ''The police are not against the people practicing their tradition and culture,but community leaders must know the character of people they allow to wear costume of masquerade in the name of culture.A masquerade has no right to mount road block on busy highways where motorists,motorcyclists and other road users move on daily basis.The police have commenced investigation and will get to the root of this matter as issues of masquerade disturbing people have become a recurring decimal''.
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