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Haiti’s government on Saturday confirmed the deaths of at least 196 people due to cholera outbreak in the country. More than 2,500 people are hospitalized on suspicion of infection, which causes high fever, diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration. According to Haitian President Rene Preval, the authorities are taking steps to ensure that cholera does [...]

At last the coalition government is in place and power sharing has been worked out and ailing Zimbabwe finally gets a new sympathetic PM. It took rather a long time ever since the dramatic run-off which Robert Mugabe won by simply eliminating the opposition from the race. MDC was forced to withdraw from the final run-off Presidential polls. According [...]

The World Health Organization has confirmed that more than 3,000 people have died of cholera in Zimbabwe. This clearly points to the fact that the waterborne disease is out of control by health experts. The epidemic adds misery to an already desperate country wracked by political strife and a seemingly insurmountable economic crisis. To add to a pile [...]

The cholera killed nearly 500 people in Zimbabwe in the largest outbreak recorded recently in the country, informed the World Health Organization (WHO) here Tuesday. The spread of the disease arrives in the midst of a turbulent period of political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe. The WHO said in a report that the outbreak is affecting most regions [...]