A picture taken in December 2008 and released by NGO Oxfam shows Zimbabweans suffering from cholera at the Budiriro Cholera Clinic, a clinic that has been set up to deal with the influx of cholera cases, in Harare. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe announced Wednesday that the region was launching an urgent international campaign to assist Zimbabwe with a humanitarian crisis amid a cholera outbreak.
A picture taken in December 2008 and released by NGO Oxfam shows Zimbabweans suffering from cholera at the Budiriro Cholera Clinic, a clinic that has been set up to deal with the influx of cholera cases, in Harare.
Misheck Bunyira carries his wife, Janet in the late stages of pregnancy to hospital by wheelbarrow in Epworth, Harare, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Zimbabwe's health system once the envy of of many African nations is in a state of collapse with many hospitals either completely shut down or unable to admit new patients.
A Zimbabwean girl carries a bucket of water from a stream in Budiriro neighbourhood in Harare December 17, 2008. Zimbabwe's neighbours will launch an urgent humanitarian campaign in the hope of saving the country from economic collapse and a cholera epidemic, South African President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Wednesday.
Children carry water collected from a stream in Budiriro neighbourhood in Harare, December 17, 2008.
Children collect water from a stream in Budiriro neighbourhood in Harare, December 17, 2008.
A Zimbabwean vendor pushes a handcart loaded with vegetables past uncollected garbage in Budiriro neighbourhood in Harare, December 17, 2008.
A water processing unit from the German Red Cross (Deutsche Rote Kreuz) waits on the tarmac before being loaded onto a DC-10 aircraft en route to Zimbabwe, at Schoenefeld airport on December 17, 2008 following reports of a cholera outbreak there. The water filter can produce 600.000 litres of drinking water daily.
Trafic line up at the South African border town of Musina with Zimbabwe on December 17, 2008. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe refused to join calls for President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to quit, expressing hope that Zimbabwe's stalled power-sharing agreement would be implemented this week.
A water processing unit from the German Red Cross (Deutsche Rote Kreuz) waits on the tarmac before being loaded onto a DC-10 aircraft en route to Zimbabwe, at Schoenefeld airport on December 17, 2008 following reports of a cholera outbreak there. The water filter can produce 600.000 litres of drinking water daily.
Zimbabwean shoppers retun to their home town Beitbridge after Christmas shopping in South African border town of Musina, on December 17, 2008. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe refused to join calls for Robert Mugabe to quit, expressing hope that Zimbabwe's stalled power-sharing agreement would be implemented this week.
Zimbabwean shoppers retun to their home town Beitbridge after Christmas shopping in South African border town of Musina, on December 17, 2008.
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