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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (990)	12/11/2008 12:03:46 PM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

Can you believe this man. Syphilis makes you delusional. Also Zimbabwe accusing Zambia and Botswana of getting ready to invade. I would see some UN troops coming in to invade with Zambians and Botswanians keeping peace after. Mugabe Says Zimbabwe Free of Cholera After UN Warns of Increase 2008-12-11 13:54:25.400 GMT By Brian Latham Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Robert Mugabe said cholera “no longer exists” in Zimbabwe, a day after the United Nations health agency warned the number of people infected in the country’s outbreak may almost quadruple to more than 60,000. “Our doctors, with help from the Southern African Development Community and the World Health Organization, have quelled the outbreak,” Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said in a telephone interview from Harare after Mugabe made the comment today in a nationally televised address in which he credited the WHO and SADC for their help in fighting the disease. Mugabe also dismissed calls by global leaders for him to resign. More than 16,000 Zimbabweans have contracted cholera since it broke out in August, the WHO said in a statement today. The government put the death toll at 783. Budiriro, a working-class township in Harare that houses about 300,000 people, has been the worst-affected area, the UN agency said. Beitbridge, a town on the border with South Africa, follows a close second. Mugabe’s announcement of an end to the outbreak is “clearly madness,” Nelson Chamisa, a spokesman for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said in an interview from Harare. “At least 800 people have died, perhaps more because we do not really know the effect of the disease in outlying rural areas.” Cholera, mainly spread through contaminated water and food and poor sanitation, causes severe diarrhea and vomiting that can be fatal. The first cases in the Zimbabwean outbreak were reported in August. A collapse of the country’s economy has led to shortages of chemicals for water-treatment plants. Population Weakened A decade of recession and recurrent famine is weakening the population, making them susceptible to diseases, said Caritas, a Catholic aid agency. “Our staff say that people are dropping dead in the streets from cholera. They’ve witnessed people mixing cow dung with what’s left of their food to make it go further.” Caritas Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight said in a statement on the organization’s Web site today. “The poverty is at its most dehumanizing,” President George W. Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown “can stop calling for the invasion of Zimbabwe now that we have defeated cholera,” Ndlovu said. “The claims they’ve made that we cannot control or govern our country have been laid to rest. We don’t need to hear more from their dirty mouths. We don’t need to hear more about military intervention from their leashed poodles in Kenya, either.” The U.S. president was among several Western leaders who, along with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, this week called for Mugabe to step down. Cholera has spread from Zimbabwe into the neighboring countries of Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa.