(The economic and social situation are worsening by the day in Zimbabwe - Roelof)

Musina - Precarious living conditions and the collapse of infrastructure in Zimbabwe have probably led to the serious outbreak of what is believed to be cholera in the Musina area in Limpopo.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2428705,00.html

Paris - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3575) warned President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) on Tuesday not to form a government without him, vowing to use his majority in parliament to render such a regime unworkable. Speaking on a trip to France, Tsvangirai said Mugabe had to keep a promise to form a coalition with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change after disputed elections, otherwise his legacy as a liberation hero would be ruined.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2428584,00.html

:pray:ing for Zimbabwee....Lord, I pray that just turn the hearts of these evil people responsible for all this devastation. Only YOU, Father God have the power to straighten this situation out..These are YOUR children as well...YOUR Word says that YOU hoped none would perish, after sending YOUR Son, Jesus, to earth to be the atonement for our sins. Father, we know that not all will go to Heaven to be with YOU, but, we also know that there are works in progress for these lost nations by YOUR missionaries, Father, who are martyred everyday for the Gospel...I pray that YOUR mighty arm would stretch out and do away with all this evil..I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen:pray:

livingwaters

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Harare - Zimbabwe, battling chronic food shortages and astronomical inflation, is set to receive 350 000 tons of maize from the World Food Programme (WFP), state media reported on Wednesday. Millions in the southern African country are ravaged by an economic crisis critics blame on President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562)'s policies, such as the seizure of commercial farms to resettle landless blacks, which ruined the agriculture sector.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2429152,00.html

(Please continue to pray for our neighbour - Roelof)

Harare - Zimbabwe's health services, once regarded among the best in Africa, are "in a state of collapse" with its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, a leading medical body said on Wednesday.
The country's four main hospitals, in the capital Harare and the western city of Bulawayo, were "virtually closed", while smaller district hospitals and municipal clinics "are barely functioning or closed", the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) said. "Sick people in need of attention are being turned away."

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2429133,00.html

Washington - The US ambassador to Harare, James McGee, said on Thursday a total of 294 people have been confirmed dead from cholera in Zimbabwe, amid about 1 200 cases of the water-borne disease.
"The water situation, sanitation situation has gone through the ceiling," McGee told reporters in Washington via a satellite hookup from Harare. "There are over 1 200 confirmed cases of cholera and another 2 500 unconfirmed cases of cholera," McGee said, adding that the death toll had risen to 294, which is higher than the official toll.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2430134,00.html

JOHANNESBURG — Robert Mugabe (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/robert_mugabe/index.html?inline=nyt-per), Zimbabwe (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/zimbabwe/index.html?inline=nyt-geo)’s 84-year-old president, clinging to power after 28 years in office, barred another famous 84-year-old, former President Jimmy Carter (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jimmy_carter/index.html?inline=nyt-per), from entering the country Saturday. The globe-trotting, Nobel Prize (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/nobel_prizes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier)-winning Mr. Carter said it was a novel experience for him. He had never before been denied a visa.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/world/africa/23zimbabwe.html?ref=africa

Johannesburg - Scores of Zimbabwean cholera patients have crossed into South Africa, desperately hoping to survive the nationwide outbreak that has killed nearly 300 people, health officials said on Monday.
The United Nations says at least 294 people have died while more than 6 000 cases of the deadly water-borne disease have been detected. Zimbabwe's hospitals and clinics struggle to provide patients with even basic drugs and equipment, prompting scores of people to seek help in neighbouring South Africa.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2431705,00.html

(Please pray for this poor country - Roelof)

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South African President Kgalema Motlanthe warned Monday that Zimbabwe's political deadlock could bring the troubled nation to collapse as he announced new talks to save a stalled unity accord.
Motlanthe said Zimbabwe's political rivals would meet Tuesday in South Africa in the latest bid to rescue the power-sharing deal that was signed two months ago but never put into effect.
"Unless the root cause of the political absence of a legitimate government is solved, the situation will get worse and will implode or collapse altogether," Motlanthe said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gGlDCLGlYMA7zbAb7mBoqKEQIquQ

(Please pray for Zimbabwe - Roelof)

Johannesburg - President Kgalema Motlanthe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5325) warned on Monday that the situation in neighbouring Zimbabwe "may implode and collapse" and announced a new round of talks to help resolve the crisis.
The comments - some of the strongest yet by South Africa - came as a cholera epidemic which has killed hundreds of Zimbabweans, spilled across the border into South Africa. Officials say Zimbabwe's political and economic collapse caused the outbreak.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2431823,00.html

South African President Kgalema Motlanthe said Monday that talks to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis will resume on Tuesday in Pretoria with negotiators from ZANU-PF and both groupings of the Movement for Democratic Change and mediator Thabo Mbeki. Mr. Motlanthe said the humanitarian crisis is bound to deteriorate without a legitimate government in place.
Motlanthe told reporters that, "Unless this root cause of the political absence of a legitimate government is solved, the situation will get worse and may implode and collapse."

http://voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2008-11-24-voa50.cfm

(What a miserable life Zimbabweans have: kids eat rats, inflation of a few million percent per year, no food in shops to buy, no medicine in hospitals, and now cholera – Roelof)

Geneva - The number of dead from cholera in Zimbabwe continued to rise, the United Nations said on Tuesday, and so far 313 deaths have been reported in the latest outbreak of the disease.
"We are very concerned by the deteriorating health situation in Zimbabwe," the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in Geneva. The number of reported cases in the country in the past three months has increased to 7 283, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, up over 1 000 from a week before.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2432332,00.html

(It is much too early, I expect Armageddon not before 2016 or 5777 Hebrew
The end of the current 28 year cycle will be 2016 AD, which will be 72 of the 28 year cycles after Jesus Christ was born. This is 144 of the 28 year cycles after Abram, the father of Israel was born. - Roelof)

Corwin Springs, Montana - They're still ready for Armageddon at the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious sect that for almost two decades has kept a bomb shelter stocked for 750 people deep in a forest near Yellowstone National Park.
Church leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been silenced by advanced Alzheimer's disease. And her followers say they've given up the assault rifles and armoured vehicles they amassed in the late 1980s - part of a post-nuclear war "re-emergence" plan that brought national notoriety and a federal investigation. Scrambling to stay current as it reaches its 50th anniversary, the church has transformed itself into a New Age publishing enterprise and spiritual university. But still in the background is its "insurance" against the end - the shelter buried beneath a hillside on the sect's 3 035 hectare Royal Teton Ranch.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2432251,00.html

Cape Town - Zimbabwe has asked for supplies of body bags to deal with the people who "are dying in numbers", according to the World Health Organisation representative in South Africa, Stella Anyangwe. And according to Health Minister Barbara Hogan the statement from Zimbabwe that there is no crisis there cannot have come from the government, since there is no government there. "It only comes from one section," she said

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2433060,00.html

Harare - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3575) said on Wednesday that former South African president Thabo Mbeki (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=895) should step down as the mediator in Zimbabwe's political crisis. "He does not appear to understand how desperate the problem in Zimbabwe is, and the solutions he proposes are too small. He is not serving to bring the parties together because he does not understand what needs to be done," Tsvangirai said in a statement.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2433152,00.html

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's neighbours should close their borders in an attempt to bring down President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562), Botswana's foreign minister said on Wednesday in the strongest call yet for action from Africa. Foreign Minister Phandu Skelemani told BBC World News television that southern African nations have failed to move Mugabe with mediation and they should now impose sanctions.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2433083,00.html

Unbelieveably sad...I continue to pray :pray:

Unbelieveably sad...I continue to pray :pray:

Thanks for your prayers

Harare - Zimbabwe's deputy health minister Edwin Muguti on Thursday appealed for aid to fight a cholera epidemic, saying the death toll had risen to 386 and could get worse. Muguti, who just one day earlier had insisted that the outbreak was under control, said a total of 9 363 cases had been reported and warned the disease could spread even more as the rainy season gets underway.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2433726,00.html

Eddie Cross on the brutal ways in which Zanu-PF has been depopulating that country

Many years ago, Didymus Mutasa said that they (Zanu PF) would be quite happy if the population fell to 6 million people who would then support the Party in its ambitions. At the time the population was probably just over 12 million and most thought these were the remarks by someone who did not have any idea of just what he was talking about?
Today we are rapidly moving towards that target figure of national population. Some people say that our population is no more than 8 million. I personally am comfortable with 9 million. In 1980 when we gained our independence as a State, the population growth was about 3,4 per cent per annum and expected to double in 17 to 18 years. It should therefore have been 17 million in 1997 when the madness that has gripped the country since then was initiated by the government.

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=111181&sn=Detail

Geneva - Fast-spreading cholera is "the tip of the iceberg" of what stands to be a major health crisis in Zimbabwe, United Nations agencies said on Friday.
AFP on Friday reported MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai as saying that more than 500 people have perished in the outbreak in the country.
Speaking in the Tangiers, Tsvangirai said the water-borne disease has killed "more than 500" and affected "more than half a million" people. A lack of clean drinking water and adequate toilets are the main triggers of Zimbabwe's epidemic of the preventable and treatable diarrhoeal disease that can be fatal, especially in children, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2434338,00.html

Harare - Zimbabwean citizens have taken a government department to court for failing to provide them with adequate and safe drinking water, as the country's cholera-related death toll nears 400, reports said on Saturday.
A group from Chitungwiza, a town outside Harare, filed an application in the High Court on Friday suing the government-run Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) which is responsible for supplying water in the beleaguered nation. "Due to their lack of diligence and constant supplies of clean water to my place of residence, diseases like cholera surfaced and people are dying," Arthur Taderera, the chairman of the Chitungwiza Residents and Rate Payers Association charged in his affidavit.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2435024,00.html

We ask you Lord to make this people seek your face and you heal their land, in Jesus' name. amen. ty Jesus.

(Please continue to pray for Zim. If the country goes under, millions of people will flood to SA, which already has an unemployment rate of 25% - Roelof)

Harare - Zimbabwe on Tuesday slipped deeper into crisis as the death toll from a cholera epidemic neared 500 and members of President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562)'s armed forces were accused of taking part in a looting spree. While the army played down violence by a "small number of indisciplined soldiers" directed against dealers in desperately-short foreign currency, the leader of the opposition said the country was in complete collapse.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2436172,00.html

Harare - Zimbabwe authorities on Wednesday restored water to most parts of the capital Harare after a cut more than 48 hours ago amid a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 500, a minister said. "As of last night, pumping capacity has been increased to 80% and the greater part of the central business district (in Harare) and most high density suburbs are receiving normal supplies," water resources deputy minister Walter Mzembi said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2436867,00.html

(Zim is sinking deeper as no unity government has yet been formed - Roelof)

Yesterday morning my home inter-com buzzed and a tiny voice asked: “Please sir, may I kindly have some water?” The request comes several times a day, and my neighbours’ children or servants roll in with battered wheelbarrows laden with 20-litre plastic canisters, buckets, aluminium pots and anything else that can hold liquid.
For the past five weeks not a drop of water has come into the Harare suburb where I live via the water treatment system set up 50 years ago. But I am a boon to the neighbourhood. I have a borehole and a pump that sucks clean, cool water out of the earth.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5282557.ece

Our church supports Celebration Church in Zimbabwe. We have had them on our prayer list (my family and I) for a couple of months now...we will continue!

Our church supports Celebration Church in Zimbabwe. We have had them on our prayer list (my family and I) for a couple of months now...we will continue!

Thanks for the prayers

London - Britain is boosting aid to Zimbabwe to help tackle a cholera emergency, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday, denouncing President Robert Mugabe as leader of a "failed state". "Mugabe's failed state is no longer willing or capable of protecting its people

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2437449,00.html

Robert Mugabe’s regime declared a national emergency and appealed for international help to combat rampant cholera yesterday in an unprecedented acknowledgement of its failings.
With the official death toll from the cholera epidemic reaching 570 and 13,000 people infected, the Government admitted that Zimbabwe’s once-proud medical system had collapsed and appealed for help even from Britain, which Mr Mugabe has blamed repeatedly for his country’s many problems.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5289322.ece

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that it is "well past time" for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) to leave office.

Rice said the country experienced a sham election followed by a sham sharing of power. Speaking in the Danish capital on Friday, she said the current outbreak of cholera in the country should be a sign to the international community that it is time to stand up to Mugabe.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2437860,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2437860,00.html)

Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe brandished the threat of fresh elections in a bid to force through a stalled power-sharing deal as the United States called for him to quit.
As a cholera epidemic in the crisis-wracked country worsened, a defiant Mugabe lashed the opposition Movement for Democratic for refusing to join a national unity government in which he would remain as president.
Neighbouring South Africa meanwhile said it was time for an end to "political point-scoring" while US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the negotiations being conducted by Mugabe with the MDC were a "sham".

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2437922,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2437922,00.html)

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband slammed the Zimbabwean government on Friday as a "rogue" regime, saying the cholera crisis shows that President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) has dashed hope for change.
"The deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe is a further illustration of the mis-rule of Zimbabwe's rogue government," he said, as Mugabe threatened fresh elections in a bid to force through a stalled power-sharing deal.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2437978,00.html

(This will destroy the already very weak economy but hopefully Mugabe will leave office - Roelof)

EU foreign ministers are set to tighten sanctions against Zimbabwe amid worries over the deteriorating humanitarian situation and political stalemate in the country, according to a draft text.
The EU will stress "its deep concern at the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, particularly as a result of the cholera epidemic and the continuing violence against supporters of the (opposition) Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)", said the draft statement prepared for the ministers to adopt in Brussels on Monday.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2437952,00.html

(Lord I pray that You remove Mugabe from his position of power - Roelof)

Families in a once agriculturally rich land are living – and dying – on a diet of nuts and berries as food shortages threaten up to five million Zimbabweans.

Father Peter stopped his truck beside a cluster of thatched mud huts deep in the arid, baking bushland of western Zimbabwe. A stick-thin woman, barefoot and dressed in rags, approached with her two young children.
“Please. We’re desperate for food,” she told him, and lifted up her children’s filthy T-shirts. Their stomachs and belly buttons were grotesquely distended by kwashiorkor, a condition caused by severe malnutrition that just a few years ago was unheard of in this once bountiful country.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5295655.ece

London - President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) would be out of power within two weeks if Zimbabwe's neighbours starved his armed forces of fuel for their vehicles, Botswana's foreign minister said on Saturday.
Phandu Skelemani said the outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe showed more pressure should be put on fellow members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to stop propping up Mugabe's administration.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2438399,00.html

Zimbabwe's central bank sacked executives at four banks accused of illegal foreign currency trading, state media reported on Saturday, as international criticism of President Robert Mugabe's government increased.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown added his voice to condemnation of Mugabe, saying the world should tell the 84-year-old ruler "enough is enough". He urged coordinated international action to help Zimbabwe overcome food shortages and a cholera epidemic.

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL4540485._CH_.2400

Zimbabwe’s panicking government is cracking down on its army and has placed the country on high alert following a riot by soldiers this week and increasing calls for President Robert Mugabe to be forcibly removed.

Unconfirmed reports yesterday claimed that 20 soldiers — fingered as the instigators of Monday’s rampage — had been summarily executed as Mugabe desperately tries to control the discontent.

His priority is the internal unrest. Military officers told the Sunday Times on Friday that an inquiry into the soldiers’ protests had been launched.

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=900059

(Lord, in 28 years Mugabe has destroyed this beautiful neighbour of us, please remove him from his position of power. Amen)

The bodies of illegal panners pile up as Mugabe desperately tries to find money to pay the troops who keep him in power

AS A military helicopter hovered over the diamond fields of Chiadzwa in eastern Zimbabwe, police on horseback moved in with attack dogs to remove thousands of illegal diggers who had poured in, hoping to get rich.
The diggers resisted, attacking the dogs with iron bars. The police opened fire from the helicopter, routing them. By the time it was all over, dozens lay dead.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5299061.ece

Built consistently throughout the period from the 11th century to the 15th century, the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are some of the oldest and largest structures located in Southern Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa). At its peak, estimates are that the ruins of Great Zimbabwe had as many as 18,000 inhabitants. The ruins that survive are built entirely of stone. The ruins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins) span 1,800 acres (7 km²) and cover a radius of 100 to 200 miles (160 to 320 km).

Today in 2008, Zimbabwe is in ruins again, but in the modern idiom. There is no running water in the capital Harare. Shops are empty, one US dollar cost a million Zim dollars. Kids eat rats, 75% of the population has no food to eat. The soldiers started this week to rob shops because they have no food in their camps. More than 13 000 people have cholera because of burst sewage pipes which are not repaired and other very low hygienic conditions in the country. Hospitals have no medicine and people are dying because there are no medical personnel.

Mugabe, a power hungry tiran has turned one of the food baskets of Africa within 28 years into a modern ruins.

Lord, I pray that You remove Mugabe from his position of power please.

Nairobi - Foreign troops should prepare to intervene in Zimbabwe to end a worsening humanitarian crisis and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) should be investigated for crimes against humanity, the Kenyan prime minister said on Sunday.
Raila Odinga urged the African Union to call an emergency meeting to authorise sending troops into Zimbabwe.
"If no troops are available, then the AU must allow the UN to send its forces into Zimbabwe with immediate effect, to take over control of the country and ensure urgent humanitarian assistance to the people dying of cholera," he said. More than 500 Zimbabweans have officially died of the disease since an outbreak in August but health officials fear the toll may be much higher. They warn deaths could spiral into the thousands due to the complete collapse of Zimbabwe's health system, the scarcity of food and the oncoming rainy season, which may help spread infections.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2438684,00.html

Harare - Influential former statesmen gave a damning verdict on Zimbabwe on Sunday, saying President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562)'s government cannot lead the nation out of its humanitarian crisis after a cholera outbreak killed nearly 600 people.
"There is bitter disappointment in the current leadership. This government has not demonstrated the ability to lead the country out of its current crisis," former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said, according to a statement by The Elders group. "The process of transition to an inclusive government must be accelerated and I urge SADC (Southern African Development Community) leaders to play a more active role in pressing for that to occur," he said in a report released on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2438742,00.html

Paris - France's president says that Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe "must go".
Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a very tough tone in his assessment of Zimbabwe's president. He says of Mugabe: "You have taken your people hostage."
Sarkozy holds the rotating presidency of the EU. He spoke on Monday in a speech marking the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
European Union foreign ministers were preparing to tighten sanctions against Zimbabwe's government in a fresh bid to force Mugabe to step down.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2439096,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2439096,00.html)

It is bewildering for a distant observer, such as I am, to read the reports coming from Zimbabwe. For some time, now, they have been saying that unless something drastic is done, the country will collapse.

In a land with, effectively, no currency, where four out of five people don't have work, where half the population is hungry, where there is no legitimate government, where sickness stalks the land unchecked, where the capital is frequently without water and electricity, where an average pay packet can't buy a loaf of bread, where you can be beaten or worse for having the wrong politics and where the right to property has become an ephemera ... what exactly would constitute "collapse"?

As is all-too plain to see, the situation is dire in the land so many remember as one of the best places to feel the welcoming spirit of Africa, despite its history; and remember it as a rich garden that, despite disparities, provided for all. And yes, it seems pointless to wonder how much further it can fall and how it can get any worse.
Yet the story of Zimbabwe is not over. There will be much yet to tell and it is worth asking now what the rest of the story might involve. What happens next?

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=112064&sn=Detail (http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=112064&sn=Detail)

(If Mugabe’s government can only return running water and repair leaking sewage pipes – Roelof)

Harare - Zimbabwean authorities have warned residents against shaking hands at weddings and funerals to curb spreading a cholera outbreak which has already claimed nearly 600 lives, state media said on Monday.
"People should watch out for weddings, funerals and other social gatherings which are agents of the spread of cholera," Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said on Sunday, according to The Herald newspaper.
"We should avoid shaking hands and uphold high standards of hygiene," he said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2438911,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2438911,00.html)

Praying for God to stop the spread of disease, provide Zimbabwe with just leadership and open doors for needed relief to come in. It's been a 28 year nightmare.

(Lord, I pray that You please remove Mugabe from the presidency - Roelof)

War, disease and starvation: the three ugly faces of conflict. And often it's disease that determines who wins and who loses the battle for power.
A case in point: Robert Mugabe could not be dislodged by an election he allegedly lost, allegations of genocide, sanctions, rampant starvation among citizens and a complete currency collapse. But it looks as if cholera might provide the final push.

http://www.health24.com/news/General_health/1-915,48982.asp

Praying for God to stop the spread of disease, provide Zimbabwe with just leadership and open doors for needed relief to come in. It's been a 28 year nightmare.

Lefty

Thanks for your prayers

(Zuma is protecting his comrade of the struggle - Roelof)

International efforts to end Zimbabwe's misery by forcing President Mugabe out of office were blunted yesterday when a key African leader urged further mediation despite the power-sharing impasse in Harare.
As President Sarkozy of France called for a swift end to the Mugabe regime, Jacob Zuma, the head of South Africa's ruling ANC party, insisted that dialogue was still the best way forward.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5310007.ece

Harare - A group of senior United Nations officials has arrived in Zimbabwe to lead efforts to combat a devastating cholera epidemic, answering an appeal by President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562)'s government last week for help.
At least 575 people have died and more than 12 000 people been infected in a cholera outbreak that began in sewage-drenched poor urban townships in August.
Because those figures do not include people who died at home, the real toll is thought to be much higher.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2439547,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2439547,00.html)

:pray: the lord will give them His Wisdom . . . .

:pray: for those affected by this terrible disease, and :pray: the international community will do something about thier pleas for help.

:pray: for those affected by this terrible disease, and :pray: the international community will do something about thier pleas for help.

Frances and Colo25

Thanks for your prayers

Harare - President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) on Tuesday rejected mounting Western pressure for him to resign, even as his health minister called for more international aid to battle a deadly cholera epidemic.
European nations on Monday tightened their sanctions on Mugabe and his inner circle, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy joined the growing chorus calling for the 84-year-old to step down. Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba accused Western countries of seeking to bring Zimbabwe before the UN Security Council by claiming that a cholera epidemic and food shortages had incapacitated his government.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2439652,00.html

A High Court judge in Zimbabwe has ordered police to search “everywhere in their jurisdiction” for Jestina Mukoko, a respected human rights activist who was snatched from her home by up to 15 armed men at dawn last Wednesday.
Ms Mukoko's gardener, who witnessed his employer being driven away in her nightdress, said that the men produced police identity cards - raising fears that she had joined a line of pro-democracy politicians, human rights activists and lawyers targeted in a fresh wave of violent abductions by President Robert Mugabe’s hit squads.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5318048.ece

(I am still praying - Roelof)

Harare - The leader of a breakaway faction of Zimbabwe's opposition said on Wednesday that a cholera epidemic was a "national disaster", urging political rivals to form a unity government to tackle the crisis.
Arthur Mutambara, leader of a faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), visited a clinic in the hard-hit Harare suburb of Budiriro as the United Nations said the disease had claimed nearly 750 lives. "This is a national disaster, a national tragedy," Mutambara told reporters at the clinic.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2440501,00.html

(Please continue to pray – Roelof)

Geneva - The death toll from cholera in Zimbabwe has risen to 783, with 16 403 suspected cases, the UN said Thursday, even as President Robert Mugabe said that "there is no cholera" in his country.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2440881,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2440881,00.html)

..........:pray::pray:.............Praying for my neighbours!

Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562)'s government on Thursday broke its silence over details over its controversial Operation Hakudzokwi, where security forces drove out thousands of illegal diamond diggers in the east of the country.
The state-controlled Herald newspaper quoted senior assistant police commissioner Faustino Mazango as saying the police had forced out 35 000 diamond diggers and dealers from Chiadza diamond field about 60km south of the eastern city of Mutare. Since the beginning of the year, the field has been inundated with people searching for alluvial diamonds.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2440958,00.html

Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition on Friday called President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) "careless and reckless" for claiming that a deadly cholera epidemic had ended even as the death toll continues to mount.
Mugabe on Thursday declared that "there is no cholera" in Zimbabwe after doctors and the World Health Organisation stopped the epidemic that has claimed nearly 800 lives and infected more than 16 000 people.
"The epidemic is still with us and is spreading fast across all major cities and towns," said Henry Madzorera, secretary for health in the Movement for Democratic Change.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2441384,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2441384,00.html)

(I also pray for the removal of Mugabe – Roelof)

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe should be seen as a "21st Century Hitler", a senior South African Anglican bishop has said.

Bishop of Pretoria Joe Seoka called on churches to pray for his removal, South African Press Association reports.
His comments came as the US ambassador to Zimbabwe warned that the country was turning into a "failed state".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7779142.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7779142.stm)

(Mugabe destroyed the economy, the inflation is now a few million percent - Roelof)

Harare - Zimbabwe's central bank on Friday introduced a Z$500m note, as the African country struggles to cope with the world's highest inflation and crippling currency shortages. The half-billon note, worth about $10, was released together with a Z$200m bill, which the central bank said in a statement was introduced for the "convenience" of the public.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2441376,00.html

Washington - Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) could be forced to step down if South Africa and other neighbours take the bold step of sealing their borders with the landlocked country, a senior US official said on Thursday. The United States has been pushing African states, particularly the 15-nation Southern African Development Community, to take firmer action on Zimbabwe, where the economy and infrastructure have collapsed, spawning food shortages and a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 people so far.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2441180,00.html

South African President Kgalema Motlanthe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5325) said Zimbabwe's prime minister must be sworn in immediately as a constitutional amendment providing for a unity government was gazetted on Saturday.

"This amendment creates among others the positions of prime minister and vice-prime minister, the incumbent of which we expect to be sworn in with immediate effect," Motlanthe said in a statement. Motlanthe welcomed the gazetting of the constitutional amendment, saying it was a "major step towards the formation of an inclusive government in Zimbabwe".

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2441924,00.html

(Zanu-PF already lost the elections in March, sos did Mugabe - Roelof)

HARARE - Zimbabwe’s ruling party says it could call new elections if the opposition fails to support a proposed constitutional amendment meant to pave the way for a unity government.

The draft amendment will be published in the government gazette, the first step toward bringing it to parliament for approval, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said in the state-run Herald newspaper.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won control of parliament for the first time in March elections, but does not have enough seats to approve the amendment on its own.

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=904698

President Robert Mugabe’s government backpedaled today on his claim that Zimbabwe had defeated cholera, after the remarks sparked an international outcry including comparisons to Hitler.

In a nationally broadcast speech, Mugabe claimed yesterday that "there is no cholera," even as the United Nations announced the death toll was nearing 800 while more than 16,000 people had caught the deadly but treatable disease.

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=904301

HARARE (AFP) — United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee said Sunday Robert Mugabe's regime had failed the nation, as Washington prepared to urge the UN to turn up the heat on the veteran leader.
Mugabe is under fresh pressure to step down as the poverty-stricken nation battles a cholera epidemic that has swamped the country. The political deadlock between Mugabe and the opposition over a unity government meanwhile appears no closer to being resolved.
Writing in South Africa's Sunday Times newspaper, McGee slammed Mugabe's regime for failing to meet its most basic obligation and care for its people while the international community propped up the nation with aid.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1r07rx9jpFtRtdi-75o8_MeMLcw

Harare - United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee on Sunday slammed Robert Mugabe's for squandering the country's resources while millions are gripped in dire poverty amid a cholera outbreak.

"What is the Mugabe regime doing? It is buying hundreds of cars so that every minister and governor can have multiple vehicles. It is buying plasma televisions for judges. "Instead of spending scarce resources on water purification chemicals that might stop the cholera epidemic, they are manipulating currency to make a personal profit," he wrote.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2442097,00.html

(Zim is totally bankrupt and can not be a thread to any country. Mugabe is a thread to all his people who are dying of hunger and cholera- Roelof)

Harare - President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562)'s government on Monday vowed to thwart western efforts to put Zimbabwe on the UN Security Council agenda, saying it was not a threat to international security. The United States and Britain were expected to lobby the council to turn up the heat on Mugabe, amid mounting international pressure for him to step aside as his country caves in under an economic meltdown and cholera crisis.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2442505,00.html

(I can not believe that SA leaders are so blind to protect their comrade Mugabe, who destroyed Zim. I still pray for the removal of Mugabe - Roelof)

Geneva - The UN Security Council on Monday kicked off closed-door ministerial talks on Zimbabwe but a diplomat said there was no consensus on a text to censure President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) in the face of South African opposition.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon was briefing the 15-member council on the country's woes, including a political stalemate, economic meltdown and a deadly cholera epidemic, at a meeting attended by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US British Foreign Minister David Miliband. US diplomats had hoped to have the council adopt a non-binding statement condemning Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for his failure to protect his people from the cholera outbreak, but a Western diplomat said the plan was blocked by South Africa.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2442643,00.html

UN chief Ban Ki-Moon has said his organisation can do little to help Zimbabwe because of its leaders' refusal to allow it to mediate.
Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic was only the most visible manifestation of a wider crisis, Mr Ban told a session of the Security Council.
The UN says 978 people have been killed by cholera, a 25% increase on the last figure given just days ago.
Talks between the government and opposition are meanwhile deadlocked.
The Security Council was holding its first discussions on Zimbabwe since July.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7784871.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7784871.stm)

Geneva - The United Nations warned on Tuesday it may have to cut food rations to millions of hungry people in Zimbabwe despite a worsening cholera epidemic, due to a lack of funds.
The rainy season under way in the region is expected to fuel the spread of the contagious water-borne disease, which has infected at least 18 418 people and killed 978 since August. Nearly 4 million Zimbabweans receive monthly food rations from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), which hopes to feed 5.1 million - almost half the population - from January.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2442850,00.html

When, in regard to Robert Mugabe, Gordon Brown says "enough is enough", and George Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy say "he must go", as do the rest of the European Union's leaders, there is a sub-text lurking beneath their words. It is: "Here we have yet another bungling African despot making a grand stuff-up of the nation he is meant to uplift."
The idea of the inept and cruel tyrant has become an archetype in the West's narrative of Africa. As such, it is prejudice; and one of the many things wrong with prejudice, even when it seems to produce an accurate picture of reality, is that it is lazy thinking. It relies on ready-baked concepts than can be slapped onto any more-or-less suitable reality.

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=112876&sn=Detail (http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=112876&sn=Detail)

(I pray for the removal of Mugabe and a speedily solution to the political deadlock. Motlanthe is protecting his comrade Mugabe, from the struggle period – Roelof)

Pretoria - President Kgalema Motlanthe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5325) expressed hope on Wednesday that Zimbabwe would have a unity government this week, as he refused to join international calls for Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) to step down.
Mugabe's regime has come under pressure from world powers to resign amid a deadlock between rival parties over a power-sharing deal, a growing cholera epidemic and economic ruin.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2443133,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2443133,00.html)

Pretoria - Zimbabwe's neighbours do not believe allegations that opposition militants are training in Botswana to try to overthrow Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562), the leader of the main regional bloc said Wednesday.
The Zimbabwe opposition also has repeatedly dismissed the allegations, calling them part of a plot to create a pretext for declaring a state of emergency that would give Mugabe broad security powers.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2443139,00.html (http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2443139,00.html)

Thankyou God because you shall bring peace to this country because we asked in Jesus' name. We give you praise Jehova Shalom.

Praying for the well being of the children of Zimbabwe and that the Lord blesses the country. :pray:

jsp110 and agyei

Thank you for your prayers

South Africa, the only country with real influence in Zimbabwe, yesterday distanced itself from growing international calls for Robert Mugabe to step down.
President Kgalema Motlanthe instead took a swipe at Britain for seeking to impose its will on its former colony and clung to the hope that a moribund power-sharing agreement would be revived and implemented this week despite the main opposition's repudiation of the deal unless real concessions are made.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5361549.ece

(I still pray for Zim - Roelof)

Johannesburg - A new Zimbabwean government would be set up by end-February, its ruling party said at a meeting in South Africa at the weekend.

"Sources close to developments said a government was most likely to be in place by the end of February," reported The Herald Online.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2448683,00.html

(This is a country where kids eat rats to stay alive - Roelof)

Harare - The Zimbabwe government has deferred the opening of schools for term one of 2009 by two weeks from Tuesday January 13 to Tuesday January 27, the state-controlled Zimbabwe Herald reported on Wednesday. Secretary for Education, Sport and Culture Stephen Mahere told the newspaper that the decision "was necessitated by the need to facilitate completion of the marking of the 2008 national examinations".

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2449616,00.html

(I can not stop to pray for our neighbour - Roelof)

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's collapsed healthcare system should be placed under international receivership, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
"We recommend the entire health system... water, sanitation... be handed over to world receivership," said PHR chief executive officer Frank Donaghue.
If the administration in Zimbabwe refused, the United Nations Security Council should compel it to allow the receivership. At the same time, the security council should ask the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to begin documenting evidence of human rights abuses there.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2452578,00.html

Harare - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has killed 1 937 people and a total of 38 p334 have contracted the normally preventable disease, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. A cholera update dated January 11 showed an increase of 25 deaths and 541 cases compared to an increase of 12 deaths and 300 cases the previous day.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2452548,00.html

(I still pray that the Lord removes Mugabe from office - Roelof)

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe should be charged with crimes against humanity over rights abuses and the collapse of the nation's health system, US-based Physicians for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The recommendation came in a damning 45-page report following the group's mission to Zimbabwe last month, which found the health crisis stemmed from serious human rights violations by Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2452556,00.html

The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has now killed more than 2,000 people, it was confirmed today.
Almost 40,000 have also now contracted the normally preventable disease as the crisis resulting from a collapsed health service threatens the entire region.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the outbreak in Robert Mugabe’s shattered nation now represented the worst in Africa in nearly a decade.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5511192.ece

The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has now killed more than 2,000 people, it was confirmed today.
Almost 40,000 have also now contracted the normally preventable disease as the crisis resulting from a collapsed health service threatens the entire region.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the outbreak in Robert Mugabe’s shattered nation now represented the worst in Africa in nearly a decade.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5511192.ece

Been hearing about this on the news...those poor people...under a ruthless dictator that does care...:cry: Still praying for them!

God bless

Been hearing about this on the news...those poor people...under a ruthless dictator that does care...:cry: Still praying for them!

God bless

moonglow

Thanks for your prayers, conditions are horrible in Zim

Harare - Zimbabwe's hunger crisis is nearing a peak, the British aid agency Oxfam said on Thursday, as millions of people see their food from last year's harvest run out months before the next crop will come in. The situation could rapidly worsen as aid agencies are forced to cut rations this month due to funding shortfalls, the charity said in a statement.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2453886,00.html

Thank you for your prayers for my country, it hurts to know that my beautiful home has been destroyed by Godless men. Please do not stop praying, only God can change the situation and end the suffering of that nation.

Geneva - The United Nations says the death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has risen to 2 201 and the epidemic is still not under control. The UN humanitarian office says 1 550 new cases are being reported every day. It says 41 986 people are now affected.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2454411,00.html

(Please pray for the horrible conditions in our neighbouring country - Roelof)

Failure by Zimbabwean political parties to reach a power sharing agreement was to blame for the country's crumbling health system, the SA Medical Association (SAMA) said on Monday.

"The cholera crisis is driven by social issues beyond health care. "The lack of basic social services such as a functioning sewerage system, safe drinking water and food is resulting in untold suffering to the people of Zimbabwe... all because of the government's inability to focus on the needs of its citizens," SAMA said in a statement.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2455652,00.html

(I agree, Mugabe is his comrade - Roelof)

Johannesburg - South African church leaders on Tuesday called on former president Thabo Mbeki (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=895) to step down as facilitator in crisis-torn Zimbabwe.
"Zimbabwe has collapsed... Former president Thabo Mbeki is compromised and no longer suitable for the mediation process," the National Church Leaders' Consultation concluded after a two-day meeting in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape. "SADC [Southern African Development Community] and the South African government have failed the people of Zimbabwe and the continent through their so-called quiet diplomacy.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2456073,00.html

Brussels - The European Union will next Monday step up pressure on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to share power by urging a probe into whether diamond sales are being used to support his government, a draft showed. The bloc's foreign ministers, who meet in Brussels on January 26, will also add names to a list of Zimbabwean officials banned from travelling in the EU because of their links to alleged human rights abuses, a draft EU paper obtained by Reuters showed.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2457441,00.html

(Zim is destroyed by Mugabe, I pray for the country and his removal from office - Roelof)

Geneva - More than 50 000 people are now infected with cholera in Zimbabwe's epidemic, which has so far killed 2 773 people, the latest figures from the World Health Organisation said on Friday. Most alarming, according to Red Cross Red Crescent health experts, is a mortality rate of 5.7%, an indication that the outbreak is still far from under control, the IFRC said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2457890,00.html

Geneva - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is "far from under control" and could exceed 60 000 cases over next week, the Red Cross warned on Friday. Torrential rains are expected to spark major flooding and exacerbate the water-borne outbreak that has killed 2 773 people among 50 000 infected since August, the United Nations said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2458074,00.html

(Must Zim totally be destroyed before a settlement is reached? - Roelof)

Pretoria - Politicians must stop talking and get down to the business of improving the lives of the people of Zimbabwe, President Kgalema Motlanthe told the SADC's extraordinary summit in Pretoria on Monday. In an audio clip which was made available to the media, Motlanthe told a closed meeting that Zimbabwe, which was once the region's bread basket, had been reduced to a food importer.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2459227,00.html

The European Union tightened sanctions on Zimbabwe's leadership on Monday, condemning President Robert Mugabe's government for its "ongoing failure to address the most basic economic and social needs of its people."

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/26/zimbabwe.eu/

http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k386/Reformation_Rox/PrayingforyouBluebirds.jpg

I found this video promoting people helping those in Africa: Seeds of Light (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Vb5y3RLUE&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div)

Still praying for them!

God bless

praying especially for Zimbabwe this morning. :pray:

God have mercy.
God, please come to their aid quickly. Amen.

praying especially for Zimbabwe this morning.


Thanks for your prayers

Harare - Zimbabwe's political parties set up a joint body Friday to monitor the implementation of a stalled unity deal between President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) and Morgan Tsvangirai (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3575), a mediation team official said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2461695,00.html

(If this is true, praise the Lord - Roelof)

JOHANNESBURG — After months of resisting intense pressure from leaders across southern Africa, Zimbabwe (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/zimbabwe/index.html?inline=nyt-geo)’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/morgan_tsvangirai/index.html?inline=nyt-per), announced Friday that he would do as they have insisted and join a power-sharing government as prime minister with his longtime nemesis, President Robert Mugabe (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/robert_mugabe/index.html?inline=nyt-per).

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/world/africa/31zimbabwe.html?hp

Lord heal and protect the people of Zimbabwe. Father send food and aid to help those who are sick and hungry and rid the land of the evil leaders in Jesus name.

Lord heal and protect the people of Zimbabwe. Father send food and aid to help those who are sick and hungry and rid the land of the evil leaders in Jesus name.

Thanks for your prayer, I am praying with you

Zimbabwe’s Opposition took the momentous but hugely risky decision yesterday to enter a unity government with President Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party, whose brutal and misguided policies have brought the country to the brink of ruin.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5622266.ece

SA civic leader will deliver his demands to the African Union. More than 25000 people around the world will refuse to eat today in protest at South Africa’s support for Robert Mugabe’s regime.

And the South African who will deliver their petition to African Union leaders today has already lost 6kg, in the middle of a 21-day hunger strike.
The foreign protesters — from countries including the US, Afghanistan and even Mongolia — are to answer a call by civil society leader Kumi Naidoo, made on global activist website Avaaz.org just three days ago.

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=929572

Addis Ababa - President Robert Mugabe has agreed to allow a top-level United Nations team to visit Zimbabwe to find ways of curbing a cholera epidemic and a hunger crisis, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2463044,00.html

Gideon Gono, widely regarded as the world’s most disastrous central banker, knocked another 12 zeros off the Zimbabwean dollar yesterday in an attempt to bring the national currency back from the realms of the fantastical.
In a stroke, the governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank slashed the street value of the Zimbabwean dollar from $250 trillion to one US dollar to 250, because the computers, calculators and people could no longer cope with all the zeros.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5645441.ece

(I still pray for Zim and the removal of Mugabe - Roelof)

The toll from Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic will almost double in the next few months as up to 55,000 more people contract the disease, according to private predictions by the World Health Organisation.
Last weekend the number of infections swept past 60,000, the worst case predicted by the United Nations in early December. The Times has now obtained a WHO memorandum expecting between 32,000 and 55,000 more cases.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5671866.ece

Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has now killed 3 371 people and infected 67 945 since it began in August, data from the World Heath Organisation showed on Friday.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2465689,00.html

ROBERT Mugabe yesterday rushed through legislation that will legalise his disputed presidency and make his arch rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, prime minister.

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=933456

(This is disgusting and a shame - Roelof)

It is the 85th birthday of President Mugabe this month and the zealots of his Zanu (PF) party are determined that it should be an occasion that their great leader will never forget.
In recent days they have been out soliciting “donations” from corporate Zimbabwe and have drawn up a wish list that is scarcely credible in a land where seven million citizens survive on international food aid, 94 per cent are jobless and cholera rampages through a population debilitated by hunger.
The list includes 2,000 bottles of champagne (Moët & Chandon or ’61 Bollinger preferred); 8,000 lobsters; 100kg of prawns; 4,000 portions of caviar; 8,000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates; 3,000 ducks; and much else besides. A postscript adds: “No mealie meal” — the ground corn staple on which the vast majority of Zimbabweans survived until the country’s collapse rendered even that a luxury.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5697712.ece

(I pray that this will be the beginning of political stability in Zimbabwe - Roelof)

Morgan Tsvangirai, the former opposition leader, was finally sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe today, joining Robert Mugabe in a "unity" government after a decade spent trying to force the President from power.
"I will well and truly serve Zimbabwe in the office of Prime Minister," Mr Tsvangirai said

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5707746.ece

Harare - Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3575) set to work on Thursday to bring his top aides into Cabinet posts where they will have to strike a delicate balance with their erstwhile adversaries.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2468980,00.html

Johannesburg - Adopting South Africa's rand to rescue Zimbabwe from hyperinflation and a near worthless currency will fail unless Harare cedes control of economic policy to its big neighbour, something it would probably reject.
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Sunday that Zimbabwe could adopt the rand, without giving any details.
Zimbabwe's economy is in freefall and its dollar virtually worthless, leading the government to allow the use of the US dollar, the rand and other currencies. Hyperinflation and shortages have forced many Zimbabweans to buy basic goods in South Africa, the continent's biggest economy.

http://www.fin24.com/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_2469118

Harare - Zimbabwe ministerial nominee, Roy Bennett, was arrested on Friday in Harare shortly before he was to be sworn in as part of a new government of national unity, his Movement for Democratic change party said. "Roy Benett, MDC treasurer general and deputy minister of agriculture designate has just been arrested by state agents," the party said in a statement.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2469587,00.html

Geneva - Rainy season floods could make it even harder to stop Zimbabwe's epidemic of cholera that appears to be spreading across southern Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. At least 73 385 Zimbabweans have been infected with water-borne diarrhoea disease since August and 3 524 have died, in Africa's deadliest cholera outbreak in 15 years.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2469594,00.html

ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have secretly bought a £4m bolt-hole in the Far East while his country struggles with hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and a cholera epidemic.
The Mugabes’ house, in an exclusive residential complex in Hong Kong, was purchased on their behalf by a middleman

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5734148.ece

Zimbabwe’s fledgeling power-sharing Government staggered into its fifth day yesterday as fears grew that a shadowy cabal of President Mugabe’s top security bosses are edging towards a military coup.
Roy Bennett, nominated by Morgan Tsvangirai as his choice for Deputy Agriculture Minister, was seized and detained by state security agents on Friday – an act seen widely as an attempt to sabotage the coalition of Mr Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Mr Tsvangirai

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5741829.ece

The outbreak -- one of the world's largest, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) -- is only getting worse, and could be a stepping-stone to other epidemics and health crises, international agencies say.
Since August, at least 3,623 people have died and 76,127 people have been infected by cholera, a preventable water-borne bacterial illness that causes severe diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration and can lead to death in a matter of days if not treated.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/17/Zimbabwe.cholera.crisis/

Mutare - A Zimbabwe court threw out one charge on Wednesday against senior MDC official Roy Bennett who is accused of planning terrorism in a case testing the credibility of a unity government with President Robert Mugabe. Roy Bennett, named to be deputy agriculture minister in the new administration, was arrested before ministers were sworn in last Friday on charges of illegally possessing firearms for purposes of trying to commit acts of insurgency, banditry and terrorism.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2472315,00.html

Harare - President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562), who turns 85 on Saturday, has led Zimbabwe to absolute ruin during his 29 years in power, while he and his family have led lives of comparative luxury.

The youth league of the veteran leader's Zanu-PF party held a fund raiser earlier this month and scraped together $110 000 with promises to nearly double the amount. The appeal, at a time when nearly half of Zimbabweans depend on food aid, also netted 80 cattle, 70 goats, 12 pigs, dozens of loaves of bread and five tons of corn-meal for the birthday menu.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2472784,00.html

The country may depend on food aid, the currency may be worthless and its people impoverished, but Zimbabwe finalised a bloated Government of 61 ministers yesterday, the biggest executive since independence.
At a ceremony at State House President Mugabe swore in 20 deputy ministers and four ministers of state, on top of the 33 full ministers and four ministers of state sworn in last week

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5769080.ece

Harare - Party loyalists on Saturday lavished Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) with praise as he marked his 85th birthday against the backdrop of a deadly cholera epidemic and crippling economic crisis.

"Like a mighty crocodile, you have remained resilient, focused and resolute against all odds and stood by the principles of our liberation struggle as well as the sovereignty of our beloved motherland, Zimbabwe," the Defence Ministry said in a newspaper advertisement.
Mugabe was due to celebrate his birthday with a feast on February 28 with party members, government officials and diplomats in the farming town of Chinhoyi in his home province of Mashonaland west.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2473930,00.html

Harare - A top UN humanitarian assessment team was scheduled to arrive in Harare on Saturday for a five-day visit to the country which is battling a deadly cholera epidemic, UN officials said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2473919,00.html

Harare - A United Nations team currently in Zimbabwe to assess the country's humanitarian crisis met on Monday with President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a government official said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2474898,00.html

Harare - Zimbabwe's High Court granted MDC official Roy Bennett bail on Tuesday, but he could stay in custody for another week because state lawyers said they would appeal against the court's ruling.

The Movement for Democratic Change treasurer-general was arrested on February 13, shortly after returning to Zimbabwe for the swearing in of a unity cabinet appointed by President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3575).
Bennett, who had been earmarked to become deputy agriculture minister, faces charges of plotting terrorism, insurgency and banditry. He denies the charges.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2475335,00.html

Joyce Mujuru, Zimbabwe’s Vice-President, has been accused of being the mastermind behind a multi-million dollar gold deal in defiance of international sanctions.
Mrs Mujuru tried to sell Congolese gold to a bullion dealer with offices in London.
Appointed by Robert Mugabe five years ago, Mrs Mujuru is among 200 Zimbabweans who have faced European Union sanctions for alleged human rights abuses.
She used her daughter Nyasha del Campo as a go-between in the deal to sell 3,600kg of gold for $90 million to Firstar Europe Ltd, a precious metal dealer. At the current market rate, one kg of gold sells for $25,000.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5796426.ece

(The Lord does answer prayers - Roelof)

Harare - The prime minister in Zimbabwe's new coalition government says President Robert Mugabe (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3562) has agreed to free political prisoners, but the attorney general is resisting. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3575), speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, also said Mugabe's appointment of senior civil servants and continued abuses of the rule of law were threatening Zimbabwe's unity government.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2475985,00.html

(Please continue to pray for this country which was destroyed by the tiran Mugabe - Roelof)

President Mugabe’s leading henchmen have mounted a final offensive to drive Zimbabwe’s remaining white farmers off their land in a direct challenge to the authority of the new unity Government.
More than 100 farms and 50 smallholdings have been raided — many at gunpoint — since the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai struck a power-sharing deal with Mr Mugabe.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5805062.ece

Harare - Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will attend a lavish birthday celebration for President Robert Mugabe this weekend, his spokesperson said on Thursday. "He was invited and he is attending. It's courteous on (the part of) his party and it's in the spirit of national unity,"

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2476838,00.html

(Please pray for Tsvangirai who already suffered so much for the freedom of his very poor people and destroyed country - Roelof)

The wife of Morgan Tsvangirai was killed in a road crash today, in which Zimbabwe's Prime Minister was injured.
Mr Tsvangirai arrived by ambulance at the private Avenues Clinic in Harare suffering from severe cuts and bruises, but Susan Tsvangirai died on the way to hospital, Eddie Cross, a member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) national executive, said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5860680.ece

THE mysterious road accident that killed the wife of Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s prime minister, leaving him injured and emotionally devastated, was caused by an aid lorry on a mission funded by Britain’s international development department.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5864667.ece

Roy Bennett, a top aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3575), said on Thursday after his release on bail that prisoners in Zimbabwe were suffering severe rights abuses.

"There are gross human rights abuses behind those walls," he told journalists and party supporters at the provincial headquarters for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change in the eastern town of Mutare.
Bennett, who spent one month locked up on terror charges, said that cells were overcrowded and prisoners received only one small meal a day. "Five people died while I was inside and it took the prison officers 4 to 5 days to remove the bodies. The situation behind there is pathetic," he said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2484273,00.html

Roy Bennett, one of the right-hand men of Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai - and an implacable opponent of President Mugabe - walked out of a squalid Zimbabwean jail yesterday.

He said: “I would not wish it on my worst enemy. There are people there who look worse than the photographs of prisoners in Dachau and Auschwitz. They get a handful of sadza [thick maizemeal porridge] and water with salt. Five people died while I was there, and their bodies were collected after four or five days. There are people there who have been awaiting trial for three years.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5898061.ece

Praying for YHWH's mercy to be poured on on those in Zimbabwe in all ways.

Praying for YHWH's mercy to be poured on on those in Zimbabwe in all ways.

Thanks for your prayers

Thanks for your prayers
Your are most welcome. In an odd way, right before I saw these posts, Abba prepared me to pray on this topic.

Your are most welcome. In an odd way, right before I saw these posts, Abba prepared me to pray on this topic.

The working of the Holy Spirit

(The link shows a horrifying picture - Roelof)

Newly released images that provide a rare look inside a Zimbabwean prison show emaciated inmates too weak to stand and eating as if they can barely bring food to their mouths.
Human rights activists and former prisoners have spoken of horrifying conditions in the country's jails and prisons but there has been little firsthand evidence available.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2495285,00.html

President Robert Mugabe (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/robert_mugabe/index.html?inline=nyt-per)’s top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior members of Mr. Mugabe’s party.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/africa/10zimbabwe.html?_r=1&hp

(Please continue to pray for Zim; the economy is destroyed and there is some kind of political stability - Roelof)

Harry is a former torturer. He is also at the heart of an experiment to bring peace and reconciliation to Zimbabwe.
Ten months ago, in the bloody run-off to the Zimbabwean presidential elections, he was a commander of a torture base for President Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party in the sprawling township of Chitungwiza, 20 miles (30km) south of Harare.

He was one of thousands of previously “untouchable” Zanu (PF) thugs who murdered as many as 180 people and tortured thousands to make sure that the election went Mr Mugabe’s way. He controlled mobs of rampaging youths who sought out supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and subjected them to unspeakable torture.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6108799.ece

Harare - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday he had given President Robert Mugabe a deadline on the resolution of issues threatening to derail the country's unity government.

Tsvangirai was speaking ahead of a third meeting between the two leaders on Thursday over the unilateral claw-back by Mugabe of the telecommunications dossier from Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
"The outstanding issues cannot go on and on hanging over our hands," said Tsvangirai,

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2505555,00.html

(I still pray for Zim. Robert Mugabe has destroyed the country while hanging on to power - Roelof)

Tatenda Majiri, 22, hoists a calabash of home-brewed beer with some authority while discussing news of the day. But he has no confidence in the future. The social work student says he has lost hope of going back to school because the government-owned University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has been closed since last year. "Drinking is the only constructive activity I have," he says,

The UZ has been closed for over six months now. It ran on tuition fees and government subsidies. But both have vanished. Most of the college's students are the children of civil servants, who have to live on salaries of $100 a month.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1893407,00.html

Harare - Zimbabwe has secured $400m in credit lines from African countries to revive its ailing industries, battered by years of economic contraction and hyper-inflation, state media reported on Wednesday.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2508584,00.html

I have been praying for this country for a very long time........

I sponsor a little girl over there in an orphanage......So I've been watching the news concerning Zimbabwe closely.

I have been praying for this country for a very long time........

I sponsor a little girl over there in an orphanage......So I've been watching the news concerning Zimbabwe closely.

My King

Thanks for your prayers and support to the little girl, may God bless you

Washington - The departure of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe would be in "the best interests of everyone", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview distributed here on Wednesday.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2519840,00.html

Brussels - The European Union is not yet ready to establish normal ties with Zimbabwe or resume aid despite a "positive evolution" in politics there, according to a letter made public on Thursday.
"The EU shares your opinion that there are indications of a positive evolution of the political situation in Zimbabwe," the bloc said in a letter to John Kaputin, secretary general of African, Caribbean and Pacific nations.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2523769,00.html

London - Vancouver is the world's easiest city to live in while Harare is the toughest, a survey said on Monday, putting Europe and north America at the top while many African and Asian cities struggle behind.

Canadian and Australian cities hold six of the top 10 slots in the Economist Intelligence Unit's liveability poll, which ranks cities on five factors: health-care, stability, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/9f58876364b64323afe6810d64fc9f77/08-06-2009%2010-06/Harare_worst_city_to_live_in

Harare - Zimbabwe on Wednesday launched efforts to write a new constitution to pave the way to fresh elections, a key step in the power-sharing pact meant to haul the country from a decade of turmoil.

http://www.news24.com/Content/Africa/Zimbabwe/966/1080193c1a74434ebda37d0c4ac8a054/24-06-2009%2002-06/Zim_works_on_new_constitution

Still praying for this whole situation! :pray::pray:

The last parcel of items I posted to the orphanage did not arrive. I was told the rail road personal were on strike, so the train simply was left with the parcel in it. I have no idea what happened to everything our church put together to send.

A man is donating a tractor to the orphanage and is going to have it shipped over. We are busy sewing new clothes and toys for the children to go on that shipment.

Please pray they get their items and it's not intercepted and stolen from them.

Thank you!

Still praying for this whole situation! :pray::pray:

moonglow

Thanks for your prayers, the Lord hears them all

The last parcel of items I posted to the orphanage did not arrive.
Please pray they get their items and it's not intercepted and stolen from them.

Thank you!

My_KIng

Thanks for your charity and prayers

They had something on the news about the government there forcing children to dig for gold to support the government...how awful. I will be glad when they get that monster out of there!

They had something on the news about the government there forcing children to dig for gold to support the government...how awful. I will be glad when they get that monster out of there!

moonglow

I support you

I still pray for Zimbabwe - Roelof

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Illegal diamond mining by Zimbabwean troops is leading to bloodshed and attacks against civilians, said a global watchdog group formed to cut the flow of so-called "blood diamonds."

Residents and workers contributed accounts of attacks detailed by the interim findings of the Kimberley Process after a weeklong investigation in Zimbabwe.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/09/blood.diamonds/

Please continue to pray for Zimbabwe - Roelof

A British farmer who stood up to Robert Mugabe and was beaten, abducted and finally had his house burnt down has travelled to Washington to ask the Obama administration to put pressure on the Zimbabwe government before it seizes the last remaining white farms.

Ben Freeth, who moved to Zimbabwe from Kent, joined his father-in-law Mike Campbell in taking Mugabe to an international court to stop the farm seizures. Their secret footage of the campaign of intimidation launched against them will form part of a film to be released in London this month.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6869581.ece

Cholera breaks out in Zimbabwe again amid fears of an epidemic in summer rains

The great banks of fly-infested refuse lining the streets rot undisturbed in the heat. The dense, sweetish stink of faeces is not as strong as it was, but it will be, as soon as the rains come in the next few weeks.

Nothing appears to have changed in this squalid, overcrowded township on Harare’s southern outskirts that six months ago was the epicentre of one of the worst cholera epidemics in Africa that killed 4,300 of the 100,000 that were infected.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6883266.ece

Cholera breaks out in Zimbabwe again amid fears of an epidemic in summer rains

The great banks of fly-infested refuse lining the streets rot undisturbed in the heat. The dense, sweetish stink of faeces is not as strong as it was, but it will be, as soon as the rains come in the next few weeks.

Nothing appears to have changed in this squalid, overcrowded township on Harare’s southern outskirts that six months ago was the epicentre of one of the worst cholera epidemics in Africa that killed 4,300 of the 100,000 that were infected.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6883266.ece

Oh how awful..:cry::(

I will keep them in my prayers...what a horrible situation!