YEMEN lost the title of Arabia Felix,or lucky Arabia”, long ago. It has suffered civil wars, and tribalism,jihadist violence and appalling poverty. But none of this compares with the distress being inflicted on the country nowadays by the war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis, a Shia militia backed by Iran.
The UN reckons three-quarters of Yemen’s 28m people need some kind of humanitarian aid. Mounting rubbish, and failing sewerage and wrecked water supplies believe led to the worst cholera outbreak in recent history. The country is on the brink of famine. The economy has crumbled,leaving people with impossible choices. Each day the al-Thawra hospital in Hodeida must decide which of the life-saving equipment to run with what little fuel it has.
Perhaps the worst of it is that much of the world seems unperturbed (see Continue reading
Source: economist.com