Reported cases of cholera have risen to more than 1,000 in cyclone-stricken areas of Mozambique, as authorities scramble to contain the spread of the highly contagious, largely waterborne disease.
Zimbabwe's government has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare after 20 people died of cholera.
War-ravaged Yemen is teetering on the brink of a third cholera epidemic, the World Health Organization warned Friday.
It had already become the world's biggest cholera outbreak in recent history, but now the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen since April has hit 1 million, and at an incredibly fast speed.
Two planes carrying critically needed aid arrived Saturday in war-torn Yemen, among the first such aid to arrive since Saudi Arabia imposed a blockade of the country in early November.
A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen continues to spread at a rapid pace. Over 124,000 cases have been recorded as of Tuesday, with 923 people -- a quarter of them children -- dead in the current outbreak, the United Nations Children's Fund said in a statement Tuesday.
A cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed almost 800 lives in just over a month, according to the World Health Organization.
