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In a move that has stunned Western observers, Mugabe has announced that that country's doctors have arrested the cholera epidemic.

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The announcement came as the UN announced the official death toll had risen to 783, and were making preparations to handle as many as 60,000 cases, and South Africa declared a cholera disaster on its border with Zimbabwe, as a spillover from the Zimbabwe epidemic.

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