A WP article that I posted on Monday, "2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak", was linked on the front page yesterday.

Furthermore, its an ongoing incident, with hundreds dead and tens of thousands infected.

I regret that I didn’t post this article last month, when cholera was already wreaking havoc in Harare and other areas with poor sanitation.

Worse, its becoming an international issue, with over 160 diagnoses of the disease across the border in South Africa, which has an extremely large Zimbabwean community in econopolitical exile.

This also comes during a stalemate between ZANU-PF/JOC and the MDC (both factions), as the government is functionally moribund without any new ministers appointed from the coalition agreement reached a few months back. While Zimbabwe’s government has allowed this to happen by extension of their utter lack of economic savvy or forethought (why would sanctions against certain ZANU-PF-affiliated persons, not the whole of the state, tie into why Zimbabwe’s plight is so frighteningly dreadful?), a few of the Western states are (reluctantly) giving emergency aid to the country, just enough to (supposedly) suppress the outbreak.