Global & Disaster Medicine

Yemen’s humanitarian crisis can turn into a catastrophe with fighting at the port city of Hudaida

LA Times

  • Since early 2015, more than 10,000 people have been killed
  • Since 2015, some 2 million have been driven from their homes because of the fighting between a Saudi-led coalition and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
  • Some 22 million people, rely on aid
  • 8.4 million of them are facing famine.
  • The country has been plagued by the largest cholera epidemic in recorded history, with 1 million suspected cases
  • Meanwhile, Hudaida is home to about 600,000 people and a port responsible for 70 percent of imports into Yemen
  • The fighting in and around the port city could ignite a humanitarian catastrophe.


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