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The UN health agency and partners have agreed to send 1 million doses of cholera-vaccine to Yemen to help stanch a spiraling and increasingly deadly outbreak in the impoverished country,
Finding themselves caught between the callousness of poverty and ruthlessness of war, suicide is on the rise among Yemenis writes Khalid AlKarimi
At least one patient is admitted to hospital in Yemen every minute with cholera.
At least 20 people were being held hostage at a Pizza restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, after an al-Shabab suicide bomber killed six.
Delivery of aid to Yemen is still desperately lacking, the UN said, despite aid pledges totaling close to $1.1 billion last April.
More Sudanese troops will be sent to fight in Yemen, reports suggest, after the Saudi-led military alliance expelled Qatar from the coalition waging war on Yemen's Houthi rebels.
A soldier and three assailants were killed in an al-Qaeda attack on a checkpoint in Yemen's Hadramawt province on Monday, officials said.
The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has risen to more than 100,000 since a new outbreak began on April 1, with 789 deaths reported across the country.
Rebels who control the Yemeni capital Sanaa said on Monday they will have no further dealings with UN envoy Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmad, whom they accuse of bias.
The Yemeni government cut diplomatic relations with Qatar on Monday, shortly after its Gulf backers severed ties with Doha in an unprecedented escalation in regional tensions.
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