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BBC OS: 2024/01/16 17:06 GMT: Zambia cholera outbreak

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Zambia cholera outbreak

2024/01/16 17:06 GMT

2024/01/16 17:06 GMT: Zambia cholera outbreak

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Zambia cholera outbreak

Zambia is dealing with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent years

Zambia is dealing with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent years.

More than 350 people have died and nearly 9,000 active cases of cholera have been registered in Zambia following an outbreak there. Dorcas Wangira - the BBC's Africa Health Correspondent - explains where and why the outbreak is happening and we hear messages from Zambians on the disease.

Donald Trump has cemented his status as the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination following his landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses. Our North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher answers listeners' questions on what this could mean for the 2024 Presidential election as a whole.

BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mike Thompson gives the latest lines as the Israeli military says it's carried out aerial and artillery strikes on Hezbollah positions in south Lebanon. 

BBC journalist Daniel Wittenberg recounts his experiences travelling to a rehabilitation centre in the mountains of northern Kyrgyzstan, where wives and children of suspected IS recruits spend their first six weeks after being repatriated.

(Photo: A healthcare worker holds antibiotic pills for cholera treatment. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo)

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