Local Editor
The head of the U.N. child agency said trying to slow the spread of cholera in war-ravaged Yemen is "a race between us, and the rains and the continuing destruction and the fighting."
Anthony Lake, executive director of UNICEF, told The Associated Press on Thursday that efforts to ramp up the campaign against cholera are hampered by a shortfall in resources.
U.N. officials say about 400,000 cases of suspected cholera and close to 1,900 deaths have been recorded since April.
Lake said ordinary people should demand that their governments put an end to these conflicts and "then meet their responsibility to clean up the human suffering that is caused by these conflicts."
Saudi Arabia has been leading a destructive military campaign against Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has seriously damaged the country’s infrastructure. Local Yemeni sources have put the death toll from the Saudi war at over 12,000, including many women and children.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
