Yemen cholera epidemic on worst record

Ongoing cholera epidemic, which swept war-ravaged Yemen is the "largest ever recorded" in a single year, with more than 360,000 suspected cases in the three months since the outbreak started, the charity Oxfam said.

Since cholera began to spread in April, the epidemic has killed more than 2,000 people, while the country grapples with death, starvation, malnutrition and diseases due to a worsening humanitarian situation caused by the war, Oxfam said.

"It is quite frankly staggering that in just three months, more people in Yemen have contracted cholera than any country has suffered in a single year since modern records began," Nigel Timmins, Oxfam's humanitarian director, said in the statement.

UNICEF's Yemen office said, that most children in the country lacked basic medical care, adequate nutrition, fresh drinking water, suitable sanitation and education.

UCJ, UNILORIN.