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For months now, Zimbabwe has been battling to stem the spread of deadly cholera in its cities and villages because the country simply lacks clean water. Cholera, an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by consuming food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, can spread quickly in cramped and dirty conditions. It has become a kind of grim reaper to this southern African nation - back in more than 4, went to their graves when the water-borne disease struck in what was already a frenzied and turbulent time. It reflected the imploding political and economic crisis when hyper-inflation peaked at 80 billion per cent and heralded a historic power-sharing government that eventually got to grips with the situation. Today inflation is again rearing its head and cholera has spread across all of the country's 10 provinces, mainly affecting children, often left unsupervised in the stifling heat as their parents try to work. This outbreak first struck back in February and as October ended official figures from the Health and Childcare Department are listing nearly 6, cases and some suspected deaths.

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In our series of letters from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo looks at what could be in store for the continent in the next 12 months. President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Boko Haram has been driven into hiding and is a shadow of its former self. We are told by the Nigerian president that his army has "technically" defeated the Islamist militant group, that they have now been reduced to fighting with improvised "explosive devices and indoctrinating young guys to carry out suicide missions in churches and mosques". To those on the receiving end of such attacks, this does not seem much of a reduction of the insurgents' activities but rather examples of their usual modus operandi. And President Buhari's definition will come as scant comfort to the people of the north-east, with many thousands still displaced from their homes and the frequent suicide attacks on markets by a group that has sworn allegiance to the so-called Islamic State IS. The figures are concerning - a six-year insurgency is said to have killed 17, and displaced more than 1. The Islamist insurgency has also spilt over into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon - with the United Nations Children's Fund saying this has meant the closure of more than 2, schools and the disruption of over a million children's schooling. Come April , it will be two years since the Chibok girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram and the hash tag BringBackOurGirls will have long acquired the dusty feel of failure. Can Mr Buhari bring them back in the coming year? Kenya's police chief has told us that the Somali-based Islamist group has split into two factions , loyal to al-Qaeda and IS respectively. With events in a Bamako hotel earlier in the year and the global reality of random attacks, may prove to be a nervous year in which the African Union must harness what collective power it has to protect its citizens from the biggest madness of the millennium.

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In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers how international justice is affecting the continent. Africans are in a new age of revolutions, it seems. From our Arab neighbours in the north to the usual rebellious suspects in eastern Democratic Republic Congo, to the culture haters in northern Mali to the striking miners in the south - change is all around us. The growth of good news and an explosion of books by ubiquitous Africa experts also speak of a new age of confidence taking advantage of the fastest-growing economies on the planet, huge discoveries of energy and mineral resources and more billionaires and millionaires than at any other African age. But the more things change the more they seem to stay exactly where they once were. I have lost count of the number of times I've read of a rebellion in DR Congo, or how, when I first started pretending to be a journalist , I would be irked and annoyed by the same experts describing the armed battles surrounding Laurent Kabila's newly named Democratic Republic of Congo as "Africa's first world war". They somehow managed to be patronising and inept in this description, conveniently forgetting that Africans fought in both World Wars and that having five nations battling for influence over DR Congo's riches and her politics did not actually involve all 54 of the continent's governments.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called the wave of suspected poisonings of schoolgirls in recent months an "unforgivable crime". More than 1, girls at dozens of schools have been affected by unexplained illnesses since November. Incidents were reported in at least 15 cities and towns on Sunday alone. Authorities have released very little information about their investigations and announced no arrests, but they have accused Iran's "enemies" of using the suspected poisonings to undermine the clerical establishment. Some Iranians believe the girls' schools are being targeted by hard-line elements to stop them receiving an education. Others suggest the authorities may be punishing girls for their leading role in the nationwide anti-government protests that erupted in September.

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And will they be safe? Environmentalists fear that African elephants will become extinct. What, then, can Africa hope to find in ? BBC Media Action. But add to this looping melodrama the UN and its impotent soldiers, the International Criminal Court and its praise-singers and you could have a brand new drama in which a rebel with the comic book name of "the Terminator" - also known as General Bosco Ntaganda - flees international sanction to run yet another group of rebels in the Kivus and the new name of Col Sultani Makenga has a victory march in newly captured Goma while threatening to take his far more disciplined troops onwards to take the capital, Kinshasa. Retrieved 20 July Archived from the original on 3 December Iran Afghanistan Tajikistan. The Last of the Blonde Bombshells. And as new people take the reins of rebellion or power, old names keep popping up thanks again to the ICC. Retrieved 21 January Would such events have occurred were it not for the international arrest warrant out on Gen Ntaganda?

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Of her visit to the refugee camps Garai states, "My trip to a refugee camp in Syria destroyed any hope that the horrors of Iraq might end, or that we are doing enough to help its victims. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Wikimedia Commons. Whatever happens, will probably not produce a single dull month, but we may all need to chew some kola nut, indulge in some khat or sip some Chinese tea to reduce our rising levels of anxiety. Come April , it will be two years since the Chibok girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram and the hash tag BringBackOurGirls will have long acquired the dusty feel of failure. Retrieved 22 May Archived from the original on 30 December Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbons [51]. Retrieved 28 September The Iranian government has "targeted" the members and family members of BBC Persian through threats, intimidation, and arrests. Known for her extensive work on stage and screen, she often acts in period films. Garai in Singapore in July Archived PDF from the original on 5 February Archived from the original on 31 December