BEIRUT: Djibouti, a nation of about 1.2 million people at the southern end of the Red Sea, cannot on its own absorb the wave of Yemenis arriving there as they flee the conflict in their own country, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of migrants who already pass through its desert each year, the UN’s top official in the African country warned on Wednesday. Jose Barahona, the UN resident coordinator in Djibouti, said close to 4,000 refugees had crossed the Bab Al-Mandab strait from Yemen

Source: Arab News