Word: cholerae
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British Prime Minister GORDON BROWN, calling on European leaders to confront President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, where a cholera outbreak has killed more than 600 people...
...After a slew of election recounts, much posturing, and, no doubt, vast amounts of behind-the-scenes violence and threats, Tsvangirai was essentially forced to withdraw from the election. This month, the tyrannical Mugabe is still ruling Zimbabwe, and unsurprisingly, the country is on the verge of collapse. A cholera epidemic has swept through Zimbabwe, crippling its resources. This week, water was shut off from the capital city. In addition to creating a lack of supplies, the disease outbreak has incited violence in the streets. Last week, the government arrested several prominent Zimbabwean human rights activists after they helped carry...
...growing cholera crisis in Zimbabwe, which the U.N. estimates has killed 783 people and has infected more than 16,000, simply doesn't exist in the mind of Robert Mugabe. "I am happy to say," the nation's president of 28 years announced on Thursday, "there is no cholera." And, he added, "now that there is no cholera, there is no cause...
...Noria Mashumba, a Zimbabwean senior project officer at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, predicts that Zimbabweans will take matters into their own hands. "This cholera epidemic is really the last straw," she says. "The government is not going to be able to back away from this." But Vines sees little hope for a rebellion. "The population is fatigued, most of the middle class has left, energy is very low, and Zimbabwe's population is anyway very conservative," he says. "On top of that, the paradox of the cholera epidemic is that the outside emergency aid it attracts...
...context of Africa's worst countries, 200 deaths, despotism, brutality and the corruption of the regime elite is all too usual. The cholera epidemic indicates Zimbabwe is entering a new stage: a humanitarian crisis that affects tens of thousands inside the country and, with hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring over Zimbabwe's borders, all southern Africa too. After initially denying there was a problem, Zimbabwe's regime changed its tune last week, saying it could not cope with the health crisis. "With the coming of the rainy season, the situation could get worse," said deputy health minister Edwin Muguti...