3,000 dead from cholera in Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe is trying to hide the scale of the deadly epidemic sweeping the country. But its impact can today be revealed
A senior official in the health ministry told The Independent yesterday that more than 3,000 people have died from the water-borne disease in the past two weeks, 10 times the widely-reported death toll of just over 300. "But even this higher figure is still an understatement because very few bother to register the deaths of their relatives these days," said the official, who requested anonymity. Full Story »
Posted by Chris Finnie
This type of story is very hard on the reporter that witnesses the hell these poor souls must endure. To know that you have the ability to leave and the victims are having to chose between their method of execution, stay in the refuge camp and die from health problems or return to the countryside and be hacked to death.