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from EMEKA OKONKWO in Abuja, Nigeria Nigeria Bureau ABUJA, (CAJ News) – A SPREADING cholera outbreak has killed no less than 16 people in eastern Chad over the past week. The water borne disease has ...

More than 100,000 cases of the disease have been registered in the ast year, a World Health Organization official said.

A deadly cholera outbreak has struck refugee settlements in eastern Chad, where tens of thousands of Sudanese arrivals from ...