Zimbabwe: The Culprits Behind the Cholera Outbreak

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A festering cholera outbreak has killed at least 28 people in a short period. Government is blaming the Harare municipality and the local authority says it's government. And conspiracy theorists think a prowling Chemical Ali has planted the vibrio cholerae bacterium to kill people for some weird reason.

The third theory is as interesting as it is bizarre. You will remember Ali Hassan Abd Al-Majid, the former Iraqi Defence minister and head of intelligence services. He was nicknamed Chemical Ali for the mass killing of Kurds in the 1980s and 1990s using chemical weapons. Here, some people seem convinced that there is at least one person who is in the business of tossing the cholera bacterium into our sewers whenever there is a disputed election.

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