Cholera
Dec 12 2008, Robb

Just a yesterday, I had the great joy (not!) of watching Robert Mugabe (I refuse to call him “President”) in a Zimbabwe nationwide television broadcast, tell the country and the world that cholera in Zimbabwe has been arrested.

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Morgan Tsvangirai, right, leader of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, hands over a cup of water containing cholera medication to a cholera patient, while visiting the Budiriro Clinic in Harare, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. The death toll from cholera...