Despite a promising reduction in new cholera cases throughout July, in August around 150,000 suspected cases were recorded, bringing the total since April 27 to nearly 600,000. Largely as a result of the cholera crisis, a revised version of the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan for 2017 calls for an additional $271 million, and by the end of the month the new total of $2.3 billion had only been 41 percent funded. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) based in Aden floated