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 thursday,a tricycle operator 25 year old Daniel Joseph,in Jos was sentenced to one month in prison for stealing a transformer after he pleaded guilty to the crime and he begged for leniency.The Magistrate Mr Tijanni Zololo also gave him an option to a fine of N500,000.Earlier the Police Prosecutor,Sgt Samuel Churkwap told the court that Victor Dung,a member of the Operation Rainbow,arrested Joseph and took him to A Division Police Station on August 27 2015.He said the convict and two others at large conspired and dismantled a 50 MVA transformer belonging to Jos Electricity Distribution Company {JEDC}.He said that Joseph was arrested by the police while conveying the parts of the transformer to an unknown destination.During the investigation,the convict confessed to have committed the offence.
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