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Cholera in Yemen: Avoidable deaths in the shadow of war

The World Health Organization warns of a rapid increase in infection numbers in a country whose livelihoods have been systematically destroyed.

Edit by Dion Paz 14 October 2026

A Woman in Black protester in central London hands out leaflets highlighting Britain's arms exports to Saudi Arabia and how they "fuel the conflict" and humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The leaflet points out how British manufactured Typhoon and Tornado aircraft as well as weaponry and bombs have "been deployed on combat missions in the Yemen campaign" and how the British are even training the Saudi Air Force. Surveys conducted by the Yemen Data Project, a group of academics, human rights and national security experts, showed that as of 2016 at least one third of all Saudi air strikes had hit civ Foto: Alisdare Hickson from Canterbury, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Im Jemen sind viele Menschen an Cholera erkrankt. Die Zahl der Kranken steigt jede Woche sehr schnell an. Die world health organizationWeltgesundheitsorganisation macht sich große Sorgen um die Situation.

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