2017年8月24日 星期四

「一場緩慢的死亡」,葉門陷入全球最嚴重人道危機‘It’s a Slow Death’: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis


‘It’s a Slow Death’: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis

Two and a half years of war and a crippling cholera outbreak have brought Yemen to the brink of collapse.

Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom? - BBC News - BBC.com

www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423

Yemen conflict. Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a war between forces loyal to the internationally-recognised government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement. ... Alarmed by the rise of a group they ...

Yemen crisis - BBC News

www.bbc.com/news/topics/e6b869f9-0a85-47e9-a098.../yemen-crisis

All the latest news about Yemen crisis from the BBC.

Witnessing Yemen's desperate suffering - BBC News - BBC.com

www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41000237

21 hours ago - Severe food and medical shortages caused by two years of devastating war are having a major impact on everyday life in Yemen. The BBC's ...

Yemen conflict: How bad is the humanitarian crisis? - BBC News

www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34011187

Two years of conflict have devastated Yemen, left 18 million people in need of some kind of humanitarian assistance and created the largest food security ...


「這是一場緩慢的死亡」。
也門士兵雅各布·阿-傑菲已8個月沒有領到工資,家庭存款已經耗盡,而他6歲的女兒正日漸消瘦、需要治療。
和超過半數的葉門人一樣,他們一家無法立即獲得來自醫療中心的幫助。
經過兩年半的戰爭後,葉門還在運行的社會功能所剩無幾:這個國家目前正深陷一場嚴重的人道危機。

葉門自2014年以來陷入內戰,社會功能幾乎癱瘓。近幾個月來,霍亂已導致該國近兩千人喪生,超過50萬人受感染,這是過去50年來全球最嚴重的疾病大爆發之一。
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