FP-România: Marş în vremea Holerei

Criza perpetuă şi uitată. Zimbabwe se confruntă cu cea mai gravă empidemie de holeră…din 2000 încoace. O mare parte din capitala Harare a rămas fără apă din cauza lipsei dezinfectantelor.

Cel puţin 425 de oameni au murit în ultimele luni din cauza holerei, boală care se răspândeşte prin apa contaminată, şi peste 11.000 din toată ţara au fost infectaţi din august încoace - informează BBC .

Ministrul sănătăţii a făcut apel la oameni să renunţe chiar la obiceiul de a da mâna pentru a împiedica răspândirea bolii.

Ca urmare a prăbuşirii sistemelor de sănătate şi a răspândirii bolii, unii locuitori ai capitalei au început să sape puţuri în curţi şi deja s-au format cozi pentru a cumpăra apă.

Chiar dacă boala poate fi tratată uşor, lipsa medicamentelor şi a personalului medical din spitale îngreunează sarcina autorităţilor de a combate epidemia. Un marş al medicilor şi al infirmierelor a fost oprit brutal de poliţie la Harare. Potrivit martorilor, forţele de ordine au folosit bastoane pentru a-i împăştia pe manifestanţi - a transmis BBC .

Substanţele pentru purificare a apei vor fi importate din Africa de Sud – susţin oficiali de la Harare citaţi de cotidianul local The Herald.

Până atunci, epidemia s-ar putea extinde spre statele din jur, pe undele râului Limpopo.

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Pe de altă parte, ministrul Apărării a anunţat că soldaţii care au protestat recent împotriva lipsei de cash vor fi arestaţi.  Din cauza crizei de lichidităţi, locuitorii statului african nu pot să retragă decât sume mici în fiecare zi, care uneori abia ajung pentru a cumpăra o pâine.

The Independent: Basildon Peta: It should be the tipping point for the tyrant – but this is Zimbabwe

Until it happened, the sight of Robert Mugabe's loyal soldiers rampaging against his regime was unthinkable. So surely their unprecedented actions ought to be the tipping point for the 84-year-old tyrant. But in the weird world that cynics call Mugabeland, things are never straight forward. Despite the widespread disenchantment in the lower ranks, Mr Mugabe still commands the support of a higher clique. And its strength is never to be underestimated.

The Independent: Cattle die, Zimbabweans 'eat infected meat'

An anthrax outbreak has killed three people and threatens to wipe out livestock in northern Zimbabwe, compounding the nation's struggle against cholera which has killed hundreds, a charity said Monday.

Two children and one adult in the Zambezi Valley have died of the disease, which also threatens to kill 60 000 livestock in the region, Save the Children, a British non-government group, said in a statement.

BBC: Zimbabwe vows to defy land ruling

Zimbabwe's government will not comply with a regional court ruling against land seizures, a minister has said. Under colonial rule, whites seized much of Zimbabwe's best land, forcing black farmers to less fertile areas.

Reversing this was one of the main reason for Zimbabweans taking up arms in the 1970s to end white minority rule. But 20 years after independence in 1980, just 4,400 white farmers still held a third of Zimbabwe's land.


Harare diary : Too much to take

Esther (not her real name), 28, a professional living and working in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, describes how the daily struggle to survive is reaching a point of desperation. We have been very patient, waiting all this time for a peaceful solution. It is getting to be too much now. It is beyond what anyone can face; what an individual can take. The cutting off of the city's water when there's a cholera outbreak, the cash withdrawal limit and now the security forces becoming undisciplined.


Harare diary: New abductions

Esther (not her real name), 28, a professional living and working in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, describes how the daily struggle to survive carries on with no end in sight. We were discussing our illusive government of national unity at work the other day and one of the ladies, voicing her opinions, said how obviously it's not working and the only way forward is by holding new elections.