Cholera has already killed more than 4,000 Zimbabweans and nearly 100,000 people have been affected by the disease. Health officials said cholera is now being spread through the Limpopo to South Africa.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe vowed on Saturday that seizures of white-owned farms would continue, as he urged followers to respect his new unity government. Rival Morgan Tsvangirai has promised to help white farmers to regain land.
Zimbabwe's President Mugabe celebrates his 85th birthday on Saturday with a lavish party costing 250,000 US dollars whilst stricken Zimbabwe seeks 5 billion dollars in aid. Rival and prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was invited.
The World Health Organization said Friday that Zimbabwe's cholera cases now exceed 60,000, once again sounding the alarm for an epidemic expected to worsen with the rainy season. More than 3,000 have died from the disease so far.
Zimbabwe's outbreak of cholera which has struck the country since August has killed 3,000 people, according the World Health Organization. The country is also suffering from economic and political unrest.
The World Health Organisation said Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has killed 2,755 people and infected close to 50,000. The agency said a growing number of deaths were occurring in rural areas beyond its reach.
Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is picking up speed, with a total of 1,732 deaths so far out of 34,306 cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The United Nations has warned the number of cases could top 60,000.
The cholera epidemic that swept through Zimbabwe has killed 1,564 people since August, the World Health Organisation said on Monday, while a further 29,131 suspected cases have been reported.
At least 1,174 people are now known to have died from the Cholera epidemic which has ravaged Zimbabwe for weeks. The United Nations children's fund UNICEF said that "the disease is still not under control".
Zimbabwe’s economy is in freefall with inflation soaring at record levels. Since August 2008, the country has struggled to cope with the outbreak of cholera. Zimbabwe’s economic, political and social situation is deteriorating each day.
