A man pushes his relative in a wheelbarrow to a cholera clinic in Harare. The head of the UN Children's Fund in Zimbabwe told the BBC on Sunday he feared a possible 60,000 cholera cases in the coming weeks. (AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)From Yahoo News/AP:
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Thousands of Zimbabweans are dying, uncounted and out of sight in a silent emergency as hospitals shut, clinics run out of drugs and most cannot afford private medical care, health groups say.
Even as deaths from a cholera epidemic climbed into the hundreds, international and local organizations say many more are dying needlessly in a disaster critics blame on President Robert Mugabe's government.
The toll will never be known, according to Itai Rusike, executive director of the Community Working Group on Health — a civil society network grouping 35 national organizations.
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My Comment: Even though the leader of Zimbabwe is condemned by many, what is remarkable and tragic is that monsters like Robert Mugabe are silently lionized by many of Africa's elites.