Bissau — With 80 percent of the Guinea Bissau capital's water contaminated with harmful bacteria, residents are used to outbreaks of cholera and other deadly diarrhoeal diseases, but donors say they can fund major infrastructure projects only if stability can be guaranteed.
The most recent cholera outbreak, which the government declared over in early February 2009, killed 225 people and infected some 14,000, most of them in the capital Bissau. The severity of recent epidemics has pushed some donors to invest more despite continued uncertainty, but donors remain reticent.
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