27 Nov 2024
Wednesday 1 August 2018 - 16:35
Story Code : 314220

UN agency warns of another cholera outbreak in Yemen

AP The U.N. childrens agency is warning of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida.

UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore said Wednesday that the airstrikes earlier this week damaged a sanitation facility and a station that supplies most of the citys water.

She says such attacks jeopardize efforts to prevent another outbreak of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea in Yemen.

Yemen has been embroiled in a stalemated war pitting a Saudi-led coalition against Iran-backed rebels, known as Houthis, since March 2015.

The war has damaged Yemens infrastructure, crippled the health system and pushed the country to the brink of famine.
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