Fed: Australia pledges $5m cholera aid to Zimbabwe

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2009
Fed: Australia pledges $5m cholera aid to Zimbabwe

Australia will immediately provide an extra five million dollars to help Zimbabwe fight
a cholera outbreak which has left more than three thousand people dead.

Foreign Minister STEPHEN SMITH made the pledge during a phone call on Friday to congratulate
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI on becoming Zimbabwe's new prime minister.

Mr SMITH says the UN has reported 73 thousand cases of cholera and almost three and
a half thousand deaths in Zimbabwe.

The funding will go to the United Nations Childrens Fund .. with three million to be
used for its emergency water and sanitation program and two million to boost its medicines
support program.

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