Christian Aid partner organisations in Zimbabwe are responding to the cholera outbreak which is now affecting the entire country.
According to the World Health organisation more than 12,000 cases have been reported and 565 people have died.
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, the Dabane Trust, a Christian Aid partner which specialises in drought recovery programmes, is providing an emergency response in both the city and in the outlying rural areas.
Here in the UK the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, himself of Ugandan origin, has said in the (London) Observer newspaper that “The time has come for Robert Mugabe to answer for his crimes against humanity, against his countrymen and women and for justice to be done. The winds of change that once brought hope to Zimbabwe and its neighbours have become a hurricane of destruction with the outbreak of cholera, destitution, starvation and systemic abuse of power by the state. Robert Mugabe and his henchmen must now take their rightful place in The Hague and answer for their actions.”
I second Dr. Sentamu’s motion, but who’s going to slap the cuffs on the fellow? Maybe we can get the UN to snap into action.
Now stop laughing.