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War ravaged Yemen’s electricity has been laid bare in the 2017 The Spectator Index, topping a list of more than 100 countries.
The Spectator Index of the world’s worst electricity supply in 2017, released Tuesday @spectatorindex twitter handle, indexed 137 countries.
“Worst electricity supply, 2017. (out of 137 countries) 1. Yemen 2. Nigeria 3. Haiti 4. Lebanon 5. Malawi 10. Venezuela 23. Pakistan 25. Argentina 29. Ethiopia 37. Bangladesh 41. South Africa 42. Sri Lanka 45. Algeria 46. Philippines 50. Turkey (WEF)”, the tweet read.
Yemen has been embroiled in a war since 2015 with a coalition of Arab states headed by Saudi Arabia bombing the country almost daily in an attempt to reinstate the resigned regime of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
More 13,600 people have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.
The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen.
According to the World Health Organization’s latest count, the cholera outbreak has killed 2,167 people since the end of April and is suspected to have infected 841,906.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
