While Zimbabwe suffers, the Mugabes go on holiday

By Miriam Mannak While ten-thousands of Zimbabwean people are battling cholera, while the country's political opponents are being subjected to torture and the economy has plunged into a dark pool of no return,...

Botswana Rings Alarm Bells After New Cholera Infections

The city of Francistown in Botswana is on high alert after two more people were diagnosed with cholera. This brings the number of infections to four. All cases are a spillover from the cholera epidemic in...

Zimbabwe government: "Cholera brought under control"

According to the Zimbabwean authorities, the cholera epidemic has been brought under control. "We have the means to combat the disease," said information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu. These statements are in sharp...

Water supply to Zimbabwe's capital cut off

To prevent the cholera epidemic to spread even further,  the Zimbabwean government has decided to cut water supplies to the nation's capital Harare. The decision was made after the authorities had ran out of chemicals to treat and purify the water supply in Harare, ...

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