ZIMBABWE FACING CHOLERA, TOXIC RUBBISH FIRES AND POISONED DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES
September 1st, 2008
BY CLEMENCE MANYUKWE
"DO not shake hands with anyone," Ropafadzo Hunduru, a city health worker bellowed into his loud hailer early last month in Chitungwiza town in Zimbabwe. Hunduru was warning residents in the face of a cholera outbreak that claimed the lives of four people with city authorities saying they were verifying the death of eight others. Just like any other town and city in Zimbabwe, Chitungwiza is collapsing under the weight of a nearly 10 year economic crisis that critics blame on President Robert Mugabe's mismanagement of the economy ...
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