A woman suspected to be suffering from cholera, is transported in a wheelbarrow to a clinic for treatment, in Harare, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. President Robert Mugabe said Zimbabwe's cholera crisis was over, even as the United Nations raised the death toll from the disease to 783. (AP Photo)From Yahoo News/AP:
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Sibongile Mlilo says it's not hard to think Zimbabwe is cursed — mired in political deadlock, the economy in tatters and hundreds of people dying of cholera.
"When I get home I have got to live in harmony with the raw sewage flowing in front my house day and night and the smell is unbearable," said Mlilo, 35, who sells cell phone air time from a street stall to scrounge a living for herself and her two children.
As Zimbabweans suffer, President Robert Mugabe claimed Thursday that his government, with the help of international groups, has contained a cholera epidemic that has come on top of a hunger crisis, the highest inflation rate in the world and shortages of everything from cash to medicine.
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My Comment: And it is getting worse,