Robert Mugabe should be hauled before the ICC to explain the ”tragic situation” in his country, Cope’s Mvume Dandala said on Tuesday.
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.
Alleged mismanagement at the WHO regional office has resulted in the body doing little on the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, reports Mara Kardas-Nel.
Fifty-nine people in South Africa have died since the cholera outbreak spread from Zimbabwe in November, Health Minister Barbara Hogan said on Monday.
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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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/ 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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/ 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
Malaysian plantation worker Rajam Murugasu became blind in one eye after she slipped and accidentally sprayed the weedkiller paraquat in her face.
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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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/ 23 January 2009
More than 50 000 are infected with cholera in Zimbabwe’s epidemic, which has killed 2 773 people, the WHO said on Friday.
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/ 22 January 2009
The cholera death toll in Zimbabwe has soared to 2 755, according to latest World Health Organisation statistics published on Thursday.
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/ 21 January 2009
East African farmers have become key suppliers of the active ingredient in the most effective malaria drug available.
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/ 14 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak has killed more than 2 100, it was reported on Wednesday, as neighbouring states sounded the alarm over rising cases.
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/ 14 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s Attorney General on Wednesday branded detained human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko a threat to society.
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic could get worse as the rainy season peaks, its health minister said on Monday.
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/ 13 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to hold talks next week with the UN on Zimbabwe, as Harare blamed Britain for a cholera outbreak.
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/ 2 December 2008
A deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed nearly 500 people in the biggest outbreak recorded recently in the crisis-hit country.
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/ 20 November 2008
Researchers have sold over 1 000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal to prove that the ovens can improve health and cut fuel consumption.
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/ 30 October 2008
Thousands of villagers in south-west Pakistan waited for aid on Thursday after an earthquake that destroyed homes and killed at least 215 people.
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/ 16 October 2008
Almost half of SA’s adults are too fat. The health risks are huge: heart-related illness, often triggered by obesity, is the second-biggest killer.
Zambia and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have mounted investigations into the unknown disease that has claimed four lives in SA.
When her baby turned blue, Nivetha Biju rushed the child to the emergency room of an Indian hospital and watched as the baby lost consciousness.
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/ 18 September 2008
Malaria killed nearly one million people in 2006, with children under five and African countries bearing the brunt, the WHO said on Thursday.
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/ 10 September 2008
The increasing onslaught of cancer in Africa has been largely overlooked and ignored.
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/ 9 September 2008
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