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Cholera kills 120 people

    JOHANNESBURG

    Cholera has reportedly killed 120 people and infected 3,500 others in the breakaway island of Anjouan in the Comoros, health workers said on Tuesday. The reports said the three month-old epidemic is infecting more than 250 people a week on the tiny Indian Ocean island. Anjouan, with a population of around 200,000, declared its independence from the rest of the archipelago in 1997, prompting the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to impose sanctions against the breakaway island.

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