Yemen – Conflict & Cholera (DG ECHO) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 March 2019)

The fourth anniversary of Yemen conflict on 26 March, coincided with a reported airstrike against a rural hospital in Sa’ada Governorate, supported by Save the Children, where four children and three adults were killed.
The civilian population is heavily impacted by the conflict. The protection cluster reports 4,800 civilian deaths for the year 2018 alone, almost 100 per week; the INGO Save the Children estimates that some 30 children are killed every month by airstrikes.
Since 2017, the country has experienced an unprecedented cholera epidemic, with over one million cases and 3 000 related deaths. With the arrival of rains in March 2019, an alarming increase of new cases is reported by UN agencies.
In Yemen, the provision of emergency assistance by humanitarian actors to people in need is performed in a constraining environment where restrictions on access, insecurity, interferences by parties to the conflict are common and seriously undermine the ongoing humanitarian effort. Protection of civilian population and respect of International Humanitarian Law remain a permanent concern for the humanitarian community.