The rising death toll from the latest mishap to strike Zimbabwe has turned the once comparatively economically developed country into a full scale international emergency. The cholera and anthrax outbreak compounds a country already in abject poverty.
The facts are bare. Zimbabwe's cities and towns have gone without fresh water for months. People are dying at an alarming rate. The outbreak comes at a time when Zimbabwe is facing government mismanagement, hyperinflation, drought, and disease.
Other equally tragic events occurring across the world. The systematic raping of seven out of ten women in the Democratic Republic of Congo has left many HIV-positive and pregnant. Agencies estimate that 75 per cent of all rape cases worldwide take place in Congo. Similarly, Sudan, Iraq, and Somalia are gripped by war which has left hundreds of thousands of casualties.
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