22 December 2017 – The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has crossed one million, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, urging greater efforts to tackle the outbreak and deal with the deteriorating health situation in the war-torn nation. “The epidemic is not yet overContinue Reading
Yemen is now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world, with suspected cases exceeding 200,000 and the number increasing at an average of 5,000 a day, the United Nations warned today. In a joint statement, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Anthony Lake and World Health Organization (WHO)Continue Reading
Cluster munitions are forbidden since 2008 by a treaty signed by 116 countries because they are inhuman by nature. This kind of ammunition contains dozens of explosives that spread twenty or thirty meters around the point of impact and, still worst, some fragments don’t explode and become de facto antiContinue Reading
Although the Yemen civil war is not matter of prime time news, there is a catastrophe just around the corner if the situation is not addressed soon. The lack of food is increasing and most people is famished, including 850,000 acutely malnourished children. Millions have no clean water and areContinue Reading