State of Emergency Declared in Sanaa, Yemen Over Cholera Outbreak

Plagued by Saudi airstrikes and now cholera outbreak

Cholera outbreak has killed about 115 people in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in recent days, with about 8,600 suspected cases of the diastase reported, prompting officials  to declare a state of emergency.

[Prepared by an affiliated team of political scientists.]

• Yemen Report Nos. 1 – 9 are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

Background:

• More than 7.6 million people live in areas at high risk of cholera transmission, according to WHO.
• At least 17 million of Yemen’s 26 million population lack sufficient food and more than three million malnourished children are in “grave peril,” the U.N. has said.
• Two-thirds of the population have no access to safe drinking water.
• About 10,000 people have lost their lives, and 40,000 wounded mostly in almost daily airstrikes, conducted by Western-backed, Saudi-led coalition.