Yemen’s army revealed that they managed to control presidential palace in the Yemeni province of Taiz on Monday, as they managed to launch attack against the strongholds of Houthi militias in the Yemeni city and killed a large number of them. According to sources, the attack came in coincidence with air raids from the Arab Coalition to support the Yemeni ground troops that stormed the presidential palace.
Yemen’s national armed forces have stormed into the Republican Palace in Taiz on Monday and we able to capture most of the area from the western side. Forces from Yemen’s legitimate government launched a new offensive on the Houthi militia-held Republican Palace in Taiz city on Friday and heavy clashes to retake the strategic location have since been ongoing.
Yemeni civilian sources have confirmed that at least 18 militias were killed in the fierce clashes since armed forces retook key strategic areas near the Republican Palace in Taiz in recent days. The commander of Taiz front, Major General Khalid Fadel, confirmed that armed forces were only a few meters away from fully capturing the Republican Palace on Friday. The officer made the statement during an inspection visit to the battlefront around the strategic location.
In the same context, The number of people who have died in a cholera epidemic affecting Yemen has risen to at least 471, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures released on Monday.
But the latest WHO bulletin covering the period from April 27, said that there was a "significant decrease" in the daily average number of cases recorded in the week up to May 27 compared to the previous seven-day period.
The epidemic began in October and grew until December. It then dwindled but was never brought fully under control, and a new surge in cases began in April.
Yemen has been hit hard by civil war, with 19 million of its 28 million people needing humanitarian aid and many of them on the brink of famine. Fewer than half of the country's health facilities are fully functional. The WHO said on Monday that the average daily number of cases recorded between May 21-27 was 2,529 - down from 3,025 in the previous seven days.
Caused by ingesting bacteria from water or food contaminated with faeces, cholera usually manifests itself with sudden acute diarrhea and can kill within hours, although three-quarters of infected people show no symptoms. The short incubation period means outbreaks can spread with speed, especially in places without safe water and proper sanitation, according to the WHO.