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Yemen; Saudi Arabia

A child with cholera lays silently on a hospital gurney in Sanaa, Yemen in October 2016, The May 2017 outbreak is more widespread.

Thousands in Yemen get sick in an entirely preventable cholera outbreak

May 15, 2017Conflict

As Trump heads for Saudi Arabia, a cholera outbreak in Yemen is tied to war damage from Saudi airstrikes — which are supported and fueled by the United States.

Newly recruited Houthi fighters ride on the back of a pick-up truck

If Yemen’s Houthis weren’t Iranian proxies before, they could be soon

March 24, 2017Conflict
Crater at MSF Hospital Yemen

US support for Saudis in Yemen is ‘not a blank check’

August 20, 2016Conflict

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