Army forces loyal to Yemen's exiled president seized a border crossing with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, officials in the area and witnesses said, dealing a rare blow to the country's dominant Houthi group.
The Houthis and their allies in Yemen's army control three other crossings with the kingdom, w...
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Al Jazeera And AFP,
14 Jul 2015 (8 years ago )
Yemeni forces backed up by the Arab-led coalition have recaptured Aden's international airport from Houthi rebels as heavy combat took place across the port city following the collapse of a humanitarian truce, the exiled government said.
Forces loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi als...
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http://www.unhcr.org/55c1fadd9.html,
05 Aug 2015 (8 years ago )
The arrival at Mogadishu International Airport today of 116 Somali refugees from Kenya marks a new chapter in the voluntary return process. Earlier in the morning, the two planes took off from Dadaab in Northeastern Kenya, the largest refugee settlement in the world, still hosting 333,000 Somali ref...
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23 Aug 2015 (8 years ago )
At least 21 people have been killed in car bomb attacks in two cities in Somalia, police and military sources have said.
A car exploded in the capital Mogadishu at a busy junction on Saturday evening, killing at least five people.
"So far we know five civilians died in this evening's blast and...
The first, which occurred around 22:30 (19:30 GMT) on Monday, hit part of the facility in Saada province that was not being used, according to the charity.
All staff and patients had been evacuated by the time the second strike hit about 10 minutes later.
However, the Saudi-led coalition battling ...
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14 Nov 2015 (7 years ago )
Markazi refugee camp, Djibouti - As fighting intensifies in Yemen, over 120,000 people have fled since April. Around 30,000 of those have sought safety across the Gulf of Aden in Djibouti.
Since late September, the population of Markazi camp near the Djiboutian coastal town of Obock has quadruple...
In Dollo Ado, UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, a multi-media library, for Somali refugee children and youth. The project is implemented by Save the Children and Libraries without Borders, in coordination with UNHCR Innovations Unit in Geneva.
Facilitated by the governmen...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 24 (UNHCR)-At a brief ceremony held here earlier this week, the UNHCR Representative in Ethiopia, Mrs. Clementine Nkweta-Salami, awarded prizes to three talented Somali refugees who won a regional art competition under the theme ‘Home’, reflecting on ‘Durable Solution...
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AMISOM daily media monitoring,
15 Jan 2016 (7 years ago )
Mogadishu, 22 January 2016- The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Francisco Madeira strongly condemns the attack by terrorist group Al Shabaab, on a beachfront restaurant at Liddo beach in Mogadishu, last night.
The heinous at...
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Agencies: Aljazeera,
15 May 2016 (7 years ago )
A suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people and injured 54 others by his explosives to target police recruits at a security compound in the southern Yemen city of Mukalla, security officials say.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity on Sunday because they are not authorised to speak t...