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• Cholera Outbreak Claims 50 Lives in Kenya

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Kenya’s minister for public health and Sanitation, Beth Mugo has disclosed that a fresh cholera outbreak in the country has claimed 50 lives in the past week alone, while 110 cases have been confirmed in the country, local media reported. The minister attributed this to lack of water, ineffective sanitation ...
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• Cholera Epidemic Doesn’t Stop Illegal Betelnut Sellers

  
  Madang - Ples Bilong Mi — Authority: 130
  If you don’t live in PNG it’s probably escaped your notice that there’s a cholera epidemic ripping through the population – as if HIV/AIDS was not enough! Anybody with an ounce of brains knows that cholera spreads through, uh, . . . well, there’s no polite way to say it – feces.   Okay, I guess that ...
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• In Zimbabwe Five Die As Cholera Returns

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 140
  A woman in Harare and her children draw water from a stagnant pool in Harare. It has started raining in Zimbabwe , bringing natural water, but also spreading sewage which flows in the streets. Morgan Tsvangirai has now become complicit in the deaths of Zimbabweans by failing to implement policies that could have ...
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• Happy Christmas Zimbabwe

  
  The Humanitarian Chronicle — Authority: 113
  Every year TEAR Fund’s Christmas Focus appeal focuses on a particularly needy area of the world.  In 2007 the focus was Darfur.  Last year it was Nepal with a particular emphasis on slave trafficking.  This year it’s Zimbabwe – which on the failed states index – runs a close second to Somalia as the most ...
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• Exploring climate change and its effects on the world’s children

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  During 2006,major international humanitarian assistance was required for 8 million people whose lives were threatened in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – including around 1.6 million children under the age of five.1 Because of climate change areas that have previously ...
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• It seems I must blog...

  
  tea stains — Authority: 126
  This ‘not blogging’ thing isn’t really working. Ever since I said I hadn’t got time for blogging, I’ve done considerably fewer words. Maybe blogging is my warm up… So, I missed word count confession yesterday because I was out gallivanting. This week’s words then are 3,584 which is a fine and dandy ...
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• Displaced Zimbabwean Farmers Set Down Roots in Nigeria

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 561
  Importing technical knowledge from Zimbabwean migrants is part of the Nigerian government’s plan to increase food self-sufficiency. The Nigerian government is inviting foreign farmers and giving them 1,000 hectares of land with 25-year leases in the agricultural hub of Shonga in order to improve food production, ...
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• Biggest child-killers: pneumonia and diarrhea

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Diarrhea and pneumonia kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each year globally — more than HIV and malaria combined. Here is the original post:  Biggest child-killers: pneumonia and diarrhea
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• Again, cholera claims 73 in Borno, Taraba – Tribune

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 151
  Another outbreak of cholera was reported again, on Tuesday, in Maiduguri, Borno State, claiming more than 70 lives, while another three people were confirmed dead in Karim-Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State.A medical official disclosed the outbreak and deaths on condition of anonymity to the News Agency of ...
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• Fighting cholera in Zambia

  
  Fieldnotes — Authority: 123
  School visit in Lusaka, Zambia for UNICEF-supported cholera campaign - “Your life is in your hands” When we arrived at the Twalumba Basic School we are immediately greeted by the District Commissioner, Ms. Christah Kalulu. Ms. Kalulu explained that the students were waiting patiently to see Banja, a ...
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• Dry Taps In Harare Stop Government Business As Cholera Beckons

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 140
  Residents line up at one of the boreholes dug by aid agencies in the suburbs of Harare. The water shortage has now reached critical levels, with practically the whole city having dried up, except in the city centre, where the Supreme Court had to close down last week for lack of water. It has now been restored, but ...
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• Was My Sponsored Child Affected by That Crisis?

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 422
  Whew! This has been a busy year. Our world is in turmoil and much of that turmoil is affecting Compassion’s work. Here’s a snapshot of the things I’ve reported over the past 11 months: military rebellion, slum fire, dengue fever outbreak, H1N1 virus outbreak, flooding, strike, civil conflict, volcanic ...
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• Lookout Hill - Mamela Minister

  
  InternAfrica — Authority: 134
  In the last few months, we have seen an increase in the number of service delivery protests across the country, including here in Cape Town. People are getting frustrated and this is understandable. However, I dont believe that frustration arises only out of the pace of service delivery and when it comes to my ...
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• Combating Cholera: The Preventable Epidemic

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  julien_harneis Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Cholera has ceased to be a major health threat throughout most of the world, yet in some countries in Africa, particularly Zimbabwe, the preventable and easily treatable disease continues to claim thousands of lives every year. Contaminated water supplies, poor ...
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• New live oral cholera vaccine developed by Indian scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kolkata, Nov.11 (ANI): Scientists from three Indian institutes have developed a new live oral cholera vaccine from non-virulent innocuous strain, which was modified to formulate the vaccine.National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) developed this new vaccine with the help of scientists from Institute ...
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• The Caribbean is One of the Most Vulnerable Regions to Climate Change

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean With less than two months to go before COP15, the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, TakePart continues to cover a breadth of relevant and compelling topics. One topic of particular interest to me is how climate change is impacting small island-states. Nations like the Maldives, for ...
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• Zambia: Lusaka declares war against malaria, cholera

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 472
  Lusaka District Commissioner Christah Kalulu is confident [that the city] will have fewer cases of cholera and malaria, and suffer less disaster than it has during rainy seasons over the past decade. This follows the successful implementation of the District Disaster Reduction (DDR) programme which was launched on ...
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