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Authorities in Zimbabwe declare a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 500 people a national emergency, state media reports.

Zimbabwe's government has asked for urgent help to tackle its cholera outbreak, the World Health Organisation says.

Police in Zimbabwe break up a march by nurses and doctors angered at the worsening cholera outbreak.

Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has killed nearly nearly 500 people, according to the World Health Organization.

A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed at least 484 people between August and the end of November, the UN says.

Much of Zimbabwe's capital Harare is without water reportedly due to a lack of purification chemicals, during a cholera outbreak.

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says the cholera outbreak is now his country's biggest threat.

Zimbabwe rejects calls for it to declare a state of emergency over a deadly cholera outbreak.

Cholera has killed nearly 300 Zimbabweans in recent weeks as the disease spreads and sanitation crumbles, the UN says.