YEMEN FIGHTING PUSHES NEARLY 3,000 TO DJIBOUTI IN LESS THAN A WEEK- UN. (PHOTO).

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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...

ETHIOPIA SUSPENDS TIGRAY FLIGHTS AS CLASHES SPARK FEARS OF RENEWED WAR. (PHOTO).


 Ethiopia suspends Tigray flights as clashes spark fears of renewed war


Ethiopian Airlines has cancelled flights to the northern territory of Tigray, and residents were trying to withdraw cash from banks after clashes between regional and national forces raised fears of renewed conflict.


"As of today, all flights have been cancelled," the official for Ethiopia's national carrier said on Thursday, without giving a reason.


The renewed tensions risk a return to conflict in the volatile region, which around three years ago emerged from a brutal war between Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) that killed at least 600,000 people between November 2020 and November 2022, according to the African Union — a toll some experts say is understated.


Hostilities broke out in recent days in Tsemlet, western Tigray, an area claimed by forces from the neighbouring Amhara region who have refused to withdraw despite a peace agreement signed in Pretoria at the end of 2022 requiring them to do so.


"The situation appears to be deteriorating," a security source said.


A diplomatic source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the Tigray forces were facing "the ENDF (Ethiopian army) alongside Amhara militias".


"The clashes were confirmed in recent days, but today we don't know the situation," the source added, TRT Afrika reported.


One resident of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, said that on Thursday, hundreds of people started queuing up to withdraw money, but that many banks had run out of cash.


"I went to three Commercial Bank of Ethiopia branches to withdraw some money, but I was told they had no cash.... I have checked all ATMs in the town to withdraw cash, but all of them were empty," he said.

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