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 sources,activities at the offices of the Lagos State Governor and House of Assembly were today tuesday paralysed as residents of Otodo-Gbame Community,Eti-Osa Local Government,barricaded the governor's office in protest over killing and demolition of over 800 structures within the community.The protest was the second after the first held on Monday by the residents,to express their displeasure over the demolition of structures in the over 100 year old community.Both entrances to the office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the House of Assembly were barricaded.Scores of protesters also barricaded the Mobolaji Johnson Way and governor's road as they chanted several songs to express the hardship they had been subjected to.This development prompted the policemen attached to the office to shoot at the protesting residents to scare them away from the entrance.Mr Muhammed Zana,who spoke on behalf of the protesters said ''Officials of the Directorate of State Security {DSS} Shot in the air to scare us.They almost ran-over us with their cars.But we have resolved to continue to barricade the entrance until we get assurance from the governor or his deputy,directing the police to leave their community''.Moses Dansu,son to the Baale of Otondo-Gbam community,lamented that he does not know where his family was,saying ''My family is scattered.I don't know where they are at the moment.My father,the baale has been arrested without any charge.More photos below.
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