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Zimbabwe's cholera crisis
Mugabe's government blames the country's cholera outbreak on Western germ warfare.
Last Modified: 16 Dec 2008 08:36 GMT

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Zimbabwe's government has called the country's cholera outbreak, which has killed 800 people, a "genocidal onslaught" and a "calculated racist terrorist attack" by the "unrepentant former colonial power" - the UK.

But only a day before the information minister's comments, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, announced that the cholera epidemic was "arrested".

This epidemic is only the latest unfortunate crisis for a nation experiencing hyperinflation, 80 per cent unemployment and political uncertainty.

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On Monday's Riz Khan show we talk to Robert Holmes, a former US ambassador to Zimbabwe, George Shire, a Zimbabwe analyst, and Claire-Lise Chaignat from the World Health Organisation, about the crisis in Zimbabwe.

We ask how much longer Mugabe may hold power and what, if anything, would induce him to step aside.

This episode of the Riz Khan show aired from Monday, December 15, 2008 at 2030GMT with repeats at 0030GMT and 0530GMT on Tuesday.

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