UNICEF, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, said it was sending aids aid to Yemen, hoping to beat back the two-month cholera outbreak which has spread to 218,000 people. Three UNICEF charter planes have delivered 36 tons of lifesaving medical and water purification supplies to Yemen to scale up ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said a cholera epidemic has killed some 1,310 people in war-torn Yemen since late April, warning that as many as 300,000 could get infected by the end of August. More than 200,000 suspected cases of cholera have been recorded in the country, WHO’s Yemen office ...
