Zimbabwe nears total collapse as health sector shuts down
(NEWSER) - Robert Mugabe says that the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has ended, but health experts say that 60,000 people could succumb to the disease, and half of the country's population is at risk. Zimbabwe's socioeconomic collapse has frighteningly accelerated, writes Celia Dugger in Harare, and daily life has become impossible. "Much like the organs of a severely dehydrated cholera victim," writes the New York Times reporter, "Zimbabwe's most fundamental public services are shutting down." More»
