YEMEN – Cholera has killed at least 115 people in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, the local Saba news agency said, after authorities last weekend declared a state of emergency over the outbreak and called for international help to avert disaster.

Sana’a is controlled by the armed Houthi movement, which is aligned with Iran and fighting a western-backed, Saudi-led coalition. More than 10,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in more than two years of war, which has also destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. Only a few medical facilities are still functioning and two-thirds of the population are without access to safe drinking water, the United Nations has said.(Theguardian)[+]