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,President of Nigeria Muhammmadu Buhari visit the survivng victims of friday bomb blast in Abuja ''Nyanya and Kuje''.He visited the victims where they were receiving treatment at the Trauma Centre of the National Hospital where he wished them speed recovery,promosed them that the Federal Government will take full responsibility for settling their medical bills.He also directed his Chief of Staff Mallam Abba Kyari to settle the N268,790.00 medical bill of a young girl in the Paediatric ward of the hospital.The girl's mother Deborah Stephen had broken into tears on seeing President Buhari.She told him that her daughter had been shot by armed robbers who raided their home and that the family could not afford the medical bills.The president who was accompanied by his personal aides and Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state,visited the intensive care unit,the paediatric unit and general wards of the National Hospital.More photos below. 
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