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Stupefaction as Mugabe declares cholera outbreak over
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 11 - 12 - 2008


In an apparent bid to end calls for international
intervention against his regime, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
claimed Thursday that the cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800
people since August was over, according to dpa.
"Britain wants military intervention because of cholera," the
84-year-old autocrat told a gathering of party supporters at the
funeral of a senior member of his Zanu-PF party. "Our doctors are
being assisted by the WHO (World Health Organization) to bring it
under control.
"Now there is no cholera, there is no cause for war."
Mugabe was reacting to a slew of calls from Western and a couple
of African leaders in recent days for him to step down over his
country's economic and humanitarian crises.
Water supply, sanitation and state health and education services
have ground to a halt as Zimbabwe's economy caves in under eight
years of hyperinflation.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last weekend called for
international action to remove Mugabe. The United States, France,
Germany and the European Union have also called for the leader of 28
years to bow out.
Mugabe's remarks on cholera, which were carried on national
television, surprised health experts given that, only a week ago, the
government declared the epidemic a "national disaster."
The World Health Organization contradicted Mugabe's assessment of
the situation, saying the death toll in the outbreak had risen to 788
and the number of suspected cases to 16,403.
The outbreak has spilled over into neighbouring countries. South
Africa has declared the Vhembe region around Musina on the border
with Zimbabwe a disaster area.
At least eight people, six Zimbabweans and two South Africans,
have died of cholera in Musina so far and close to 700 been infected.
The area is crammed with Zimbabwean cross-border traders and illegal
immigrants trying to escape their country.
At least four people have also died in Mozambique along that
country's border with Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's state-controlled Herald
newspaper said Thursday that Zambia and Tanzania were also affected.
But Mugabe told mourners at a funeral that cholera "came from
other countries."
One of the placards displayed at the funeral said, "Brown's
cholera." A government minister earlier this week accused the West of
"contaminating" Zimbabwe with cholera.
Mugabe also denounced Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC) with whom he signed a power-sharing
agreement in September, for travelling around the world, "looking for
support."


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