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| Zimbabwe cholera is over - Mugabe | |
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| Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has said his government has stopped a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 800 people in the crisis-hit country. | Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has said his government has stopped a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 800 people in the crisis-hit country. |
| "I am happy we are being assisted by others and we have arrested cholera," Mr Mugabe said in a speech, despite UN reports of a growing death toll. | "I am happy we are being assisted by others and we have arrested cholera," Mr Mugabe said in a speech, despite UN reports of a growing death toll. |
| He also claimed Western powers were plotting to use cholera as an excuse to invade Zimbabwe and topple him. | |
| "The cholera cause doesn't exist any more," Mr Mugabe said. | |
| In his nationally televised speech, Mr Mugabe denounced former colonial power Britain as well as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President George W Bush, who both called earlier this week for the 84-year-old to quit. | |
| "Because of cholera, Mr Brown, Mr Sarkozy and Mr Bush want military intervention," he said. "Now that there is no cholera there is no case for war." | |
| The World Health Organization says nearly 800 people have died from the easily preventable disease in Zimbabwe and 16,000 cases have been treated. | |
| Zimbabwe's economy is in freefall and its health services are close to collapse. | |
| President Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been deadlocked in power-sharing negotiations for several months. |