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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