Prayer for Zimbabwe

[Roelof]

(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/...429133,00.html

[Roelof]

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/...430134,00.html

[Roelof]

JOHANNESBURG — Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 84-year-old president, clinging to power after 28 years in office, barred another famous 84-year-old, former President Jimmy Carter, from entering the country Saturday. The globe-trotting, Nobel Prize-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/wo...tml?ref=africa

[Roelof]

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_A...431705,00.html

[Roelof]

(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...Ab7mBoqKEQIquQ

[Roelof]

(Please pray for Zimbabwe - Roelof)

Johannesburg - President Kgalema Motlanthe 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/...431823,00.html

[Roelof]

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/Zi...1-24-voa50.cfm

[Roelof]

(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/...432332,00.html

[Roelof]

(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/N...432251,00.html

[Roelof]

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/...433060,00.html

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Harare - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday that former South African president Thabo Mbeki 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/...433152,00.html

[Roelof]

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's neighbours should close their borders in an attempt to bring down President Robert Mugabe, 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/...433083,00.html

[Ashley274]

Unbelieveably sad...I continue to pray

[Roelof]

Unbelieveably sad...I continue to pray

Thanks for your prayers

[Roelof]

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/...433726,00.html