SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: The politics of cholera
JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - The number of people being treated for cholera in the northern town of Musina, near South Africa's border with Zimbabwe, is falling, but the situation remains serious.
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ZIMBABWE: Kingsley Sibanda, "You feel like a bandit fighting a sitting government"
HARARE, 20 November 2008 (IRIN) - All Zimbabwean journalists are required to register with the state-appointed media board that vets applicants. Kingsley Sibanda (not his real name), 30, is struggling to survive as an unaccredited freelance journalist writing for foreign publications.
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SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Cholera crosses the border too
JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has crossed into South Africa, with four confirmed diagnoses in a total of 68 suspected cases in the border town of Musina, according to aid workers.
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ZIMBABWE: Sibangilizwe Ndlovu, "These days people are dying in large numbers"
BULAWAYO, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Business is booming for Sibangilizwe Ndlovu, 56, who runs a small funeral parlour in the working-class district of Kelvin North in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city.
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ZIMBABWE: The divorce becomes final
BULAWAYO, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's political crisis deepened on 14 November with the withdrawal of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, from the moribund power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF.
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ZIMBABWE: "Food relief operators are overwhelmed"
BULAWAYO, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Impatience among the hungry and food relief operations put on the back foot by a nearly three-month ban are complicating an already desperate situation as Zimbabwe barrels towards its peak food crisis, less than two months away.
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ZIMBABWE: Violence returns as talks flounder
HARARE, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government is launching another wave of attacks against the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a spokesman for the opposition party told IRIN, after a much vaunted power-sharing deal appeared to be on the verge of collapse.
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ZIMBABWE: Less food for more mouths
JOHANNESBURG, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is moving into top gear this month to feed four million Zimbabweans, but severe funding shortages mean the organisation's coffers are beginning to run on empty, which has caused a cut in rations to below the minimum dietary recommendations.
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ZIMBABWE: Derrick Jimu, "I put the blame for his death squarely on the city officials and the government"
HARARE, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - Derrick Jimu, 56, has still not come to terms with the death of his son from cholera in the low-income suburb of Budiriro, in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. So far more than 20 lives have been lost in this area, and the epidemic has now spread beyond the city.
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DRC: What will stop the fighting?
JOHANNESBURG, 10 November 2008 (IRIN) - A pledge by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to complement UN peacekeeping forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with SADC soldiers does not take account of the regional body's limited military capacity, a military analyst told IRIN.
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