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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 27 March 2019

'Second disaster' warned in Mozambique as cholera a concern

By NQOBILE NTSHANGASE nary." More bodies will be carrying mosquitoes breed
Associated Press found as floodwaters drain in standing water.
BEIRA, Mozambique (AP) away. WHO also said 900,000 oral
— Cyclone-ravaged Mo- Emergency responders cholera vaccines were ex-
zambique faces a "sec- raced to contain deadly pected to arrive later this
ond disaster" from cholera diseases such as cholera, week. Cholera is caused
and other diseases, the which authorities have said by eating contaminated
World Health Organization will break out as more than food or drinking water and
warned on Tuesday, while a quarter-million displaced can kill within hours. Cases
relief operations pressed people shelter in camps of diarrhea have been re-
into rural areas where an with little or no clear water ported.
unknown number of peo- and sanitation. Many wells "We must not let these peo-
ple remain without aid were contaminated by the ple suffer a second disaster
more than 10 days after the floods. through a serious disease
storm. People are living in tent outbreak or inability to ac-
Some 1.8 million people in A family stand outside their submerged huts near Nhamatanda, camps, schools, churches, cess essential health ser-
Mozambique need urgent about 130km from Beira, in Mozambique, Tuesday, March, 26, roads and other impromp- vices. They have suffered
help after Cyclone Idai, 2019. tu places on higher ground. enough," Dr. Djamila Ca-
the United Nations said in Associated Press Many have little but their bral, the WHO Representa-
an emergency appeal for clothes, squatting over tive in Mozambique, told
$282 million for the next bwe and at least 56 dead hunger, saying the storm cooking fires and picking reporters in Geneva.
three months. in Malawi. inundated Mozambique's their way around stretches She said people in camps
The death toll in Mozam- Cyclone Idai was "one of breadbasket on the eve of of increasingly dirty water were living in "horrific con-
bique from the cyclone the worst weather-related harvest. or simply walking through it, ditions" and that about 55
has risen to 468, according catastrophes in the history The death toll remained resigned. health centers had been
to Mozambican authorities of Africa," U.N. Secretary- at least 761 in Mozam- The World Health Organi- severely damaged.
cited by the Portuguese General Antonio Guterres bique, Zimbabwe and Ma- zation said it is expecting a Aid continued to arrive, in-
news agency Lusa. There told reporters in New York. lawi, and authorities have "spike" in malaria cases in cluding much-needed air
are also 259 dead in Zimba- He raised the specter of warned it is "very prelimi- Mozambique. The disease- support. q

China ex-internet czar sentenced to 14 years for corruption

Associated Press China has 700 million peo- ranks of China's official Xi-
BEIJING (AP) — China's ple online, but authorities nhua News Agency from a
former internet censor, impose heavy controls on reporting job in the south-
who once held high-pro- political content and sites ern city of Guilin in the
file meetings with industry related to gambling and early 1990s to become the
leaders such as Apple CEO pornography. Social media agency's vice president
Tim Cook and Facebook sites such as Facebook and from 2004 to 2011. He was
founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google also are blocked. vice mayor of Beijing from
was sentenced to 14 years In its ruling, the Ningbo 2011 to 2013.
in prison on corruption court said Lu had abused A report by the govern-
charges Tuesday. his authority in various posi- ment broadcaster CCTV
The Intermediate People's tions, including as a deputy gave few details. But ear-
Court in the eastern city propaganda minister and lier reports said Lu also had
of Ningbo said Lu Wei had as head of a government had engaged in faction-
confessed to accepting 32 internet security advisory alism and "selectively en-
million yuan ($4.6 million) in body, accepting gifts in re- forced" the party's "strate-
bribes. It said he expressed turn for favors. gic arrangements on inter- In this Sept. 23, 2015, file photo, China's Internet czar Lu Wei at-
tends a gathering of CEOs and other executives at Microsoft's
remorse and vowed not to Lu took a hard line in de- net work." main campus in Redmond, Wash.
appeal his sentence. manding tough security President Xi Jinping has Associated Press
Lu helped lead the ruling checks on imported for- carried out a wide-rang-
Communist Party's tighten- eign tech products and ing crackdown on corrup- military leaders ensnared body is headquartered.
ing of controls over domes- censoring foreign internet tion that observers say is in the anti-graft campaign The government says Meng
tic cyberspace and cham- companies and social net- calculated to strengthen was the former president is under investigation for
pioned Beijing's stance that works like Facebook in the party control while bringing of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, graft and possible other
governments have a right name of preserving social down potential challengers who vanished after travel- crimes. There are heavy
to filter and censor internet stability. to his authority. ing to China from France, suspicions he had fallen out
access. He worked his way up the One of the officials and where the global anti-crime of political favor with Xi.q