[Allen:] Aid workers in Yemen fear the country could be in for an enormous outbreak of cases of cholera. Armed conflict is making it much worse as infected people flee and spread the disease. CNN's Sam Kiley travel to the cholera tents in remote towns where doctors face an uphill battle.
[Sam Kiley, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Spring rains, something to celebrate in war torn Yemen, but this joyful abandon has a mortal risk, cholera. Aid agencies fear they're on the brink of an epidemic. Hajjah is an ancient city many miles from Yemen's frontlines where Houthi rebels are battling a Saudi led coalition. Refugees fleeing war brought cholera with them. It's spreading, and fast.
[Unidentified Female:] Everybody. Everyone had the area, vomiting, nausea, everybody.
[Kiley:] Is it spreading?
[Unidentified Female:] Yes.
[Kiley:] The numbers of new patients climb every day. A month ago, there were only 11 patience here. Sixty came in yesterday. How old she?
[Unidentified Female:] Two years.
[Kiley:] What's her name?
[Unidentified Female:] Aliah.
[Kiley:] When did you first see that she was getting sick?
[Unidentified Female:] Around four days ago. It started with diarrhea, then it got worse.
[Kiley:] One of the catastrophic side effects of this war has been is that people from outside the cities have been forced into beautiful, ancient towns like this, Hajjah, but as a consequence of that the systems are overloaded. The clean water systems. And these women have been telling me that they have been drinking from the river in the town. The same river that sewage flows into. That will guarantee a cholera epidemic. A year ago, a million Yemenis were infected with cholera. Over 2,000 died. This, year the United Nations says that there have been 300,000 suspected cases. A quarter are kids under five. For now, the Yemenis are coping, but they don't have long.
[Lise Grande, U.n. Resident Coordinator:] We are very worried that if we are not able to stop it now, we could see an uncontrolled epidemic spread like wildfire across this whole country. As we face this cholera outbreak right now, we do not have sufficient cholera kits in the country. We do not have sufficient IV fluids to address the crisis.
[Kiley:] So, Doctor, what's happening with this patient?
[Dr. Ilham Wasel, Hajjah Cholera Emergency Center:] We have low blood pressure, and we should use IV fluids and give him a breathing, we should control it.
[Kiley:] So, cholera kills very quickly, doesn't it?
[Wasel:] Yes.
[Kiley:] This cholera patients survived, but without outside help, many thousands of other lives are at risk. Sam Kiley, CNN, Hajjah, Yemen.
[Allen:] I want to take you now to Southern Africa where Botswana's lifted its ban on hunting, and that includes elephants. The hunting ban was imposed in 2014 in an attempt to deter poaching, but the government now says elephant raid crops, kill livestock and destroy water supplies, sometimes injuring people. Our David Mackenzie is following the story from Johannesburg, and you have done many conservation stories in that part of Africa, David. So it's hard to make sense of a move in an era when we hear about the concern over mass animal extinction and the poaching. And Botswana is a popular tourist spot. People who want to see an experience animals. So talk more about why we are making this change.
[David Mckenzie, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, Natalie, it's a very controversial and certainly a very emotional issue. But I want to just give you a sense of why they say they want to do this. Now, the Botswana government are saying they have an elephant problem, more than 100,000 elephants there. They say there is conflict between the people and elephants, because of people encroaching on wildlife areas and elephants moving into destroy crops. This is not just a ban on hunting, it's also on elephants, but of all, big game. Again, very controversial. And many people around the world will be horrified to think that what has been a real sanctuary for elephants over the years, now they are saying they want to start hunting up again, which was banned in 2014. Now, they say this is not to, of course, exploit elephants, but to use the money they get from hunting and those fees, like other Southern African countries, to then push back into conservation, but many conservationists are skeptical about this move and say that poaching could slip into when hunting has started again, but it looks like they're going to do it and you know, there will always certainly an outcry today from conservation quarters.
[Allen:] Right, which we will be talking with them as this news spreads and settles in about this. Because there are so many groups just dedicated to elephants. As far as the recent they give, do we know if these are truly legitimate concerns?
[Mckenzie:] Well, certainly, there is a school of thought amongst conservationists and wildlife management that hunting, if done in a way that is responsible, can get money back into the communities. Now, that is a totally separate discussion, of course, from an emotional or unethical one, many people feel that you should just never hunt animals like elephant which have a very sophisticated emotional intelligence, but it is the case in certain wildlife areas that are fence off, a growing elephant population can have an impact on the ecology. This is not a cut and dried discussion. And some conservationists say you need to take emotion out of it, but, you know, it's really hard to do that when you see the devastating impact that hunting would have on elephant families, in particular, elephant bulls and matriarchs of those families. Now, there's another discussion going on which is possibly even more pressing, and that is the sale of ivory which the Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe are trying to, again, legalized. Now, just a few weeks ago you had the Botswana government with a conference there. They were, as you can see here, giving out elephant's stools. So, taxidermy elephant feces to the leaders of regional countries as a gift to say, well, we want to allow the sale of ivory that has been stockpiled worth of force millions of dollars to plow that money back into the communities. This is even more controversial, because you have seen a severe uptick in poaching in Botswana, according to conservationists, in just recent months and they say, if you allow the sale of ivory, something heavily opposed by countries like Kenya and other east African nations, then you will just get poaching outright increasing when the numbers of elephant have just plummeted across the African continent. Natalie?
[Allen:] It seems like it has got to be another solution, doesn't it? And there are so many conservation groups that have worked so hard to stop the ivory trade. And now, this. As you say, a complicated issue, and we know, you will keep reporting on it. David McKenzie. Thank you, David. Coming up here, an ancient tradition with a modern twist. A Belgian monastery back in the beer business.