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...
Today sunday according to Reuters,at least five people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon town of Mora.The dead included a police officer,two civilians and two female suicide bombers,who detonated themselves at around 8:am today in the Galdi neighboourhood near the entrance to the town.According to a military source he said ''It happened not far from the town staduim when the police officer who was killed attempted to carry out a routine check''.Authorities had dispatched teams to the scene of the bombing to gather more details and it was possible the death toll from the attack could rise.Mora town lies just a few kilometres from Boko Haram's strongholds in northeastern Nigeria.
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