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YemenExtra The file photo shows patients at a hospital in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hudaydah. (By Reuters) The United Nations warns that urgent funding is needed to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak in Yemen, where the…

YemenExtra Y.A The World Health Organization (WHO) said in its report on Monday that 913 people have been died due to the cholera outbreak in Yemen since the beginning of 2019. The report affirmed that the WHO recorded over 6,000…

YemenExtra Y.A Yemen is likely to be hit by another outbreak of deadly cholera within months, Unicef’s Middle East director has warned on the eve of the third anniversary of the country’s civil war. More than 1 million children were…

YemenExtra Save the Children organisation said Yemen is going through its worst "diphtheria outbreak for a generation" which has so far killed at least 52 people. Deaths resulting from a diphtheria outbreak in Yemen are "likely to…

SH.A. The explosion of cholera cases in war-torn Yemen is a “hideous milestone”, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The number of suspected cases has now passed the one million mark, making it…

YemenExtra SH.A. A diphtheria outbreak has killed 35 people in war-torn Yemen, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In a statement on Monday, WHO said 300 suspected cases of diphtheria have been reported in…

YemenExtra Hesham S. Al-Kibsi is currently residing in the capital city of Yemen, Sana'a, and has been witnessing and enduring the consequences of a ruthless Saudi war on his country. Al-Kibsi is a journalist on the Yemeni…

YemenExtra M.A. 360,000 suspected cholera cases in just three months An ongoing cholera epidemic which has swept war-ravaged Yemen is the “largest ever recorded” in a single year, with more than 360,000 suspected cases in the three…