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500 Yemeni refugees arrive in Obock, Djibouti

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Map: Obock, Djibouti

Five hundred Yemeni refugees have arrived in the coastal town of Obock, in northern Djibouti, according to Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, Djibouti’s Minister of Economy and Finance. The arrival illustrates the regional repercussions of the conflict in Yemen, according to the announcement published by the minister on the social network X.

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