Zimbabwe’s crumbling infrastructure makes another cholera outbreak ”almost inevitable”, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned on Wednesday.
The onset of the summer rainy season in September has aid agencies worried that a new wave of cholera could spike again.
The cholera infection rate in Zimbabwe is nearing the 100 000 mark in Africa’s worst outbreak in 15 years, aid agencies said on Tuesday.
Twelve Mozambican prisoners who died in custody this week after being arrested for rioting died of suffocation, officials said on Thursday.
At least 120 people have died from cholera throughout Mozambique since January, Ministry of Health spokesperson Leonardo Chavane said on
Wednesday.
Zimbabwean refugees should not be allowed to stay in Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Church, Gauteng’s minister for local government said on Friday.
Flooding in Angola has left at least 20 000 people homeless and the region is now at risk of a cholera outbreak, aid agencies said on Friday.
Humanitarian organisations assisting Zimbabwean refugees in Musina have warned that their displacement could worsen the spread of cholera.
Alleged mismanagement at the WHO regional office has resulted in the body doing little on the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, reports Mara Kardas-Nel.
Canada’s cricket team has cancelled its tour to Zimbabwe this month because of health reasons.
Fifty-nine people in South Africa have died since the cholera outbreak spread from Zimbabwe in November, Health Minister Barbara Hogan said on Monday.
More than 4 000 people have died in a cholera epidemic, Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday.
About R21-million has been spent on controlling the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe and a further R80-million will be allocated to affected areas.
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/ 28 February 2009
A new Guardian film, smuggled out of the country, reveals what Zimbabwe’s autocratic leader does not want seen.
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/ 27 February 2009
Southern African finance ministers agreed on Friday to push for donor help to rebuild Zimbabwe after economic collapse.
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/ 25 February 2009
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to free about 30 jailed activists to help "heal the nation".
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/ 24 February 2009
A 19-year-old man died of cholera at the Helen Joseph Hospital, the Gauteng health department said on Tuesday.
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/ 20 February 2009
Repairing Zimbabwe’s battered economy could cost as much as -billion, said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday.
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/ 18 February 2009
The numbers of new cholera cases in Limpopo and Mpumalanga have been dropping since the beginning of February, provincial health departments report.
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/ 9 February 2009
The number of people suffering from cholera in Zimbabwe has risen to more than 69 000 cases, United Nations figures show.
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/ 6 February 2009
A judge has ended the treason trial of a top Zimbabwean opposition leader, saying prosecutors appear unprepared to proceed.
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/ 5 February 2009
The number of cholera cases recorded in Zimbabwe has risen past the 65 000 mark, the latest data from the WHO showed on Wednesday.
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/ 3 February 2009
Zanu-PF leader Robert Mugabe on Tuesday blamed Western sanctions for his country’s economic collapse, which has left millions jobless and hungry.
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/ 2 February 2009
Robert Mugabe has agreed to allow a top-level UN team to visit Zimbabwe to find ways of curbing a cholera epidemic and a hunger crisis.
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/ 2 February 2009
The number of people infected by Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic has risen to almost 63 000, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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/ 2 February 2009
South Africa’s cholera crisis has nothing to do with Zimbabweans or cross-border contamination.
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/ 30 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC decided on Friday to enter a unity government with Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF, an opposition party official said.
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/ 28 January 2009
The death toll from cholera in Zimbabwe is approaching 3 000 and within reach of the worst-case scenario of 60 000 cases, the WHO says.
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/ 26 January 2009
Cholera has claimed its 11th victim in Limpopo, the provincial health department said on Monday.
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/ 26 January 2009
Anger over cholera turned violent this week as affected communities expressed frustration over perceived official mismanagement of the epidemic.
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/ 24 January 2009
Mpumalanga has recorded 381 new cholera cases since noon on Thursday, the provincial health department said.
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/ 23 January 2009
Kruger National Park rivers have tested positive for cholera, an official said on Friday.