Yemen: A ceasefire to stop coronavirus
There can be few countries in the world less well equipped to deal with a coronavirus outbreak than Yemen. Years of civil war and outbreaks of other diseases have left it with a devastated infrastructure, food shortages, and few functioning medical facilities. There is now the unilateral Saudi announcement of a two-week ceasefire, that has just started, it says "to support the efforts towards combating the spread of the virus".
So is this a glimmer of hope for the people caught up in the conflict? Hisham Al Omeisy is a Yemeni analyst, currently outside of the country...
(Photo shows: A man walking past a bombed out building in Sanaa on April 9 2020. Credit: Getty Images)
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