Jemenin koleraepidemia... Miten voi Maribin kuvernoraatti

 https://www.redcross.se/vart-arbete/j/jemen/kampen-mot-koleran-sa-hjalper-roda-korset/
Jemenin koleraepidemian  katastrofaalinen laajuus lastentappajana on  niitä nykyajan paradokseja. Alan katsoa jemenin koleraongelman takia  Jemenin alueesta  annettuja nettitietoja.
Olen aktsonut muutaman  turistifilmin, mm oikein kauniin 16 min  filmin , jonka Peter Langer on vuonna 2012 otanut fokuksessa rakennustyyli.  Teksti taisi oloa jotain kreikkaa tai kieltä jota en ymmärrä, mutta kuvat ovat hyvin hienoja.
Filmissä nätyettiin valtavia hiekka-aavikoita ilm. Marib-kuvernoraattiin pääasiassa projisoituvia.

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 Uutisia Maribista löysyy myös: Otan sitaatin myös tekstistä.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/world/middleeast/yemen-marib-war-ice-cream.html

As Yemen Crumbles, One Town Is an Island of Relative Calm

By BEN HUBBARDNOV. 9, 2017

MARIB, Yemen — As much of Yemen slides toward famine, residents of this dusty desert town can now buy food many locals had never tasted before: pizza, hamburgers and ice cream.

And while airstrikes and combat have left piles of rubble in other towns and cities, this one is growing, with cinder-block factories doing swift business and new neighborhoods rising from the sand.

Amid the war that has caused a grave humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, Marib is a relative bright spot in a nation with few to offer.

While the country is divided between competing factions, the government of Marib Province has used oil revenues and tribal politics to lessen the blows of war, providing a level of security and services lacking elsewhere. Its relative stability has attracted Yemenis fleeing more violent areas, some of whom have in turn brought money to buy property and start businesses.

“It is a success in exceptional circumstances,” said Abdul-Razaq Naqib, a production supervisor for Yemen’s Safer oil company. “Like digging through rock with your fingers,” he said, using a Yemeni saying for doing the impossible.

During a recent four-day trip to Marib with a group of Western journalists and researchers, I saw a town struggling for a sense of normalcy — and even progress — despite the collapsed country around it.

The trip was organized by the Sana Center for Strategic Studies, a research institute focused on Yemen, and led by Farea al-Muslimi, an energetic young Yemeni scholar, who said he worried that the international community was forgetting about Yemen, to the peril of both.

“We can’t stop the war in Yemen right now, but at least we can cause more conversation about it,” he said. “We want to bring the world to Yemen and bring Yemen to the world.”

Marib’s unlikely success is partly a symptom of the near complete shattering of the Yemeni state, which has left regions to fend for themselves in providing life’s basics for their people.

But the ingredients that make it work — warm ties with Saudi Arabia, oil and gas reserves, and a forward-looking governor — make it unlikely to be easily replicated elsewhere. And despite the progress here, security threats and poverty remain.

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Marib has become a refuge for all Yemenis,” said Mohammed Abdul-Khaliq, a media student at the town’s public university who had fled to Marib after the Houthis took over his hometown.

Turmoil had shuttered the university, administrators said, but it reopened last year with 2,700 students. Now it has more than 5,000, and tin classrooms have been erected to handle the overflow.

Students who had fled from elsewhere said they mixed well with locals. I met two young women in black abayas and face veils who were studying physics. One, Rasmiya Matkour, said her family had fled Sana out of fear that they would die in Saudi airstrikes meant for the Houthis.

Her friend, Sheema Mohsin, a Marib native, said she had been amazed at how the town had changed, with new restaurants, better roads and a park for children.

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TIETOJA IBB-Guvernoraatista. Siellä on raivonnut kurkkumätä  viime lokakuusta.
Antidifteria rokotusohjelma käynnissä parhaillaan. (Kuva)

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(180105) -- SANAA, Jan. 5, 2018 (Xinhua) -- A Yemeni girl prepares to receive an anti-diphtheria vaccine at a treatment center in Ibb Governorate, Yemen, on Jan. 4, 2018. The war-torn Arab country has been suffering from a severe diphtheria outbreak since October 2017. (Xinhua/Mohammed Mohammed)

Source: XINHUA