A minister of Sana’s government submitted her resignation on Tuesday, as she was assaulted by armed people loyal to the Houthi militias. According to local sources, Human Rights Minister Aliaa Al Shabi submitted her resignation after the attack against her from a number of Houthi militants during her existence in Department of Criminal Investigation in Sana to view the conditions of prisoners.
The source revealed that the Yemeni minister has been attacked and insulted due to her protest against the imprisonment of a number of activists in the prison’s bathrooms.
On the military side, Yemeni forces loyal to legitimate government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi launched an attack against the strongholds of Houthi militias and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Tuesday in the western area of Yemeni province of Kadaha. The governmental troops managed to restore a number of areas in the province killing a leading member of Houthi militias called Seleim Al Feshi with three of his companions.
Four members of the Houthi and Saleh militia were killed on Monday evening. Two other elements were captured during an army reprisal attack on the militia at the military post of the National Army in Nham, east of Sanaa. Field sources said that the army killed 4 Houthis and Salih forces, and captured two other elements, following the arrest of the forces of Brigade 314, an attempt to infiltrate into the village, "Hool".
On the other hand, three of the forces loyal to Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, backed by Arab coalition forces, were killed, while only one was injured in the areas of Asifra, Alkhalha and Dabab in Taiz. Sources revealed that the Houthi militias launched artillery attack against the sites controlled by the governmental troops.
On medical side, Thirty-four people have died of cholera-related causes and more than 2,000 have been taken ill in Yemen, as humanitarian organisations warned today that the outbreak could spiral out of countrol. This is the second wave of cholera-associated deaths in a year in Yemen, where deadly conflict has destroyed hospitals and left millions of people struggling to access food and clean water.
“There have been 34 cholera-associated deaths and 2,022 cases of acute watery diarrhoea in nine governorates, including Sanaa, during the period of April 27 to May 7,” a World Health Organization official told AFP.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) also said today it had independently treated more than 780 cases of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea since March 30 in Yemen, calling the hike in numbers an “outbreak”. “We are very concerned that the disease will continue to spread and become out of control,” said Shinjiro Murata, MSF’s head of mission in Yemen.
“Humanitarian assistance… needs to be urgently scaled up to limit the spread of the outbreak and anticipate potential other ones.”
MSF said patients were travelling dozens of kilometres (miles), in difficult conditions, to reach treatment centres.
Yemen’s public health ministry has reported 310 cases of suspected cholera in Sanaa.
Sanitation workers are also on strike in the capital over weeks of unpaid wages, leaving the streets lined with garbage and sewage pipes clogged. Sewer water flooded the streets today as the city was hit by heavy rain.