The Guardian: Mounting concern over cholera health crisis in Yemen “Yemen is facing a massive resurgence of cholera in what was already one of the world’s worst outbreaks, with more than 137,000 suspected cases and almost 300 deaths reported in the first three months of this year. With well over…

NPR: U.S. Aid Agency Is Preparing To Lay Off Most Local Staff For Palestinian Projects “Under orders from the Trump administration, the U.S. Agency for International Development is preparing to lay off most of its Palestinian aid workers in its West Bank and Gaza mission, according to U.S. government communications…

Médecins Sans Frontières: War in Yemen is fueling wider humanitarian crisis “Years of indiscriminate conflict in Yemen have shattered the country’s health system and fueled a humanitarian crisis. As the war approaches its fourth year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) repeats its call to all parties to the conflict…

New York Times: Trump Vetoes Measure to Force End to U.S. Involvement in Yemen War “President Trump vetoed a bipartisan resolution on Tuesday that would have forced an end to American military involvement in Saudi Arabia’s civil war in Yemen, rejecting an appeal by lawmakers to his own deeply rooted…

PBS NewsHour: In Mozambique, Yemen and Venezuela crises, access for aid is hard to come by “Mozambique’s official death toll from a deadly cyclone in March has topped 1,000. In the storm’s aftermath, survivors face lack of power, food, and supplies, plus deadly outbreaks of diseases like cholera and malaria.…

New York Times: Tripoli’s Last Civilian Airport Closes After Airstrike in Libya Conflict “Flights to and from the Libyan capital’s last remaining civilian airport were suspended on Monday after it was hit by an airstrike as rival militias battled for control of the city. … The World Health Organization also…

Associated Press: U.S. urges Russia, Syria to facilitate aid to remote camp “The U.S. military said Monday that it is not preventing Syrians from leaving a remote displacement camp near an American base in Syria and is urging Russia and Damascus to help facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid. Russia…

Al Jazeera: Yemen’s cholera outbreak kills over 300 people “Cholera is making another comeback in Yemen. Suspected cases have doubled during the past month, with warm, wet weather, and a health care system that has been devastated by war, creating perfect conditions for the illness to spread. Al Jazeera’s Katia…

The Lancet: Offline: Global health has forgotten the Arab World Richard Horton, editor in chief of the Lancet “…The only health organization with an exclusive mandate to address health in the Arab World is WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO). EMRO has struggled to meet its challenges. ……

CNN: House sends Yemen War Powers Resolution to Trump, where it faces veto threat “The House passed a resolution Thursday calling for the end of any U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, sending the proposal to the White House where it is expected to be vetoed. The…