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Risk of waterborne diseases grows in rural areas of Zimbabwe

Mhondoro is a farm settlement about 45km southwest of the Zimbabwean capital Harare. Two children, two-year-old twins, splash about in a pool of greenish water close to their mother's hut.
Risk of waterborne diseases grows in rural areas of Zimbabwe

According to this IRIN report, since the rains began several weeks ago, dirty water has been accumulating in the settlement, now home to hundreds of former farmworkers and others displaced during 2005's Operation Murambatsvina, which razed illegal structures and left thousands without shelter. Read more.

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