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Zambia: Politics in the Time of Cholera: Zambia's U-turn on Street Vending
IFPRI, 30 January 2018
For the last year, 12 countries in East and Southern Africa have been grappling with a cholera outbreak estimated to have resulted in almost 2,000 deaths and more than 100,000… Read more »
Is Zambia's Govt Playing Politics in a Time of Cholera?
"The ruling Patriotic Front's longstanding approach of not enforcing laws over vending has been a politically expedient and seemingly costless form of buying votes from the urban poor. However, it also allowed street vending to mushroom to unsustainable levels, with clear negative implications for the health and sanitation of Lusaka's residents, including of the vendors themselves," writes IFPRI's Danielle Resnick.
President Edgar Lungu says government is effectively fighting the Cholera epidemic (file photo).
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Africa: Zambia Proposes Resolution to Cholera
Times of Zambia, 29 January 2018
Zambia has proposed a resolution on cholera to be addressed at this year's World Health Assembly in May under the strategic priority on public health preparedness and response. Read more »
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Zambia: Zambia - Reform in a Time of Cholera
Daily Maverick, 25 January 2018
Zambia has failed to deliver on the needs, let alone the expectations, of its citizens. Unless something changes dramatically, the cholera crisis and other outbreaks will become… Read more »
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Zambia: Marginal Rise in Cholera Death Toll
CAJ News, 23 January 2018
A raging cholera outbreak has left at least 77 people dead in Zambia. Read more »
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Zambia: Cholera Prayers Irk Laura
Zambia Reports, 15 January 2018
Social commentator Laura Miti has added her voice to the cholera containment situation measures or the lack of them employed by government. Miti has taken issue with weeklong… Read more »
InFocus
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The Zambian government has been taking serious measures to contain the cholera outbreak which has killed 74 people since it started in September 2017. Kenyama, one of the most ... Read more »
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Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has announced at a press briefing in Lusaka that vaccination would first be administered in cholera epicentres, Chipata and Kanyama townships. Read more »
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President Edgar Lungu has dispatched the military to contain an outbreak of cholera which has killed 41 people in Lusaka and affected more than 1,500 others since September 2017. Read more »
