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Zimbabwean Cholera Crisis

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Patients await treatment at a makeshift cholera clinic in Harare. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
CHOLERA

From cholera to corona: The politics of plagues in Africa

What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?

  • Simukai Chigudu
15 min read
Patients await treatment at a makeshift cholera clinic in Harare. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
CHOLERA

Zimbabwe scrambles to contain cholera outbreak as death toll rises

Government says it plans to remove accumulated trash, address sewerage issues in the capital in response to this most recent outbreak

  • Mashadi Kekana
3 min read
Museveni is the only president most Ugandans have known in a country where the median age is less than 16. (AFP)
CHOLERA

Cases of cholera found on Zim, SA border

Two children, aged five and 10, had been quarantined with cholera at Beitbridge District Hospital, according to a media report.

  • Sapa
1 min read
CHOLERA

Dying at WHO’s door

Alleged mismanagement at the WHO regional office has resulted in the body doing little on the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, reports Mara Kardas-Nel.

  • Mara Kardas-Nel
5 min read