Harare - An outbreak of the deadly cattle-born disease anthrax is threatening to turn into Zimbabwe's worst yet, compounding a seven-week national epidemic of cholera, an international aid agency warned Monday.
The British-based Save the Children Fund said health workers had reported 32 cases of human infection and three deaths of people who had probably been eating meat from the carcasses of cattle infected with the disease in remote north-west Zimbabwe.
The disease had already killed 150 livestock, two elephants, 70 hippo and 50 buffalo.
It threatened to wipe out 60,000 cattle in the region, it said.
Harare - Zimbabwean riot police Wednesday beat a group of unarmed protestors and detained a number of trade union leaders during the latest in a series of demonstrations over crippling cash withdrawal limits that have rattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime.
Harare - Water began trickling again from taps in Zimbabwe's capital Harare on Tuesday, a day after supplies were shut down completely, forcing major sections of business and state administration to close.
Harare - Zimbabwe's political parties agreed on a draft constitutional amendment leading to the formation of a power-sharing government, but the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) warned that obstacles still remain.
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 Saturday.
