With almost 19 million reliant on aid, Yemen is the world’s single largest humanitarian crisis, which includes a deadly cholera outbreak, according to The International Committee of the Red Cross.
On 5 May, the Ministry of Health and Population in Sana’a declared a state of emergency. Less than three months later, over 313,000 people are suspected to be ill with cholera, while more than 1,700 people have lost their lives to the disease.
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