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 Reuters,Islamist militants al-Shabaab seized control of two towns over two days in southern Somalia and attacked two African Union {AU} convoys in the same region.Both captured towns were on routes toward Indian Ocean ports south of the capital Mogadishu and came after al-Shabaab fighters attacked an AU base in the same area on September 1.Al-Shabaab ssaid today that they had seized the two towns in the lower Shabelle region,south of Mogadishu en route to Marka,and Kuntuwarey,on the road between the capital and Barawe.
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