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Cholera in Rumonge kills four

[Rwanda] A genocide prisoner faces a Gacaca court in Rwimbogo, 20 km east of Kigali, Rwanda, August 2005. The Gacaca courts are an indigenous tribunal of justice inspired by the country’s tradition and established in 2001, in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda IRIN
Un génocidaire comparaissant devant un tribunal gacaca à Rwimbogo, à 20 kilomètres de Kigali
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    WHO says four people have died from an outbreak of cholera in the southern Rumonge area, with a total of 73 cases reported. Sixty-five percent of the cases were concentrated in Rumonge town’s Swahili district. In a report sent to IRIN on Wednesday, WHO pointed out there were no cases among the 760 DRC refugees in Rumonge. The disease, which broke out on 24 May, is caused by people drinking water from nearby Lake Tanganyika. =

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