Aug 28, 2016
nytimes.com, by Jonathan M. Katz, Aug. 17, 2016 The first victims lived near a base housing 454 United Nations peacekeepers freshly arrived from Nepal, where a cholera outbreak was underway, and waste from the base often leaked into the river. Numerous scientists have...
Jun 26, 2016
Haitians wash clothes in a stream January 8, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Mario Tama / Getty) Since cholera first broke out in Haiti five years ago, Doctors Without Borders estimates that it has killed as many as 30,000 people, and another 2 million have survived...
Apr 16, 2013
What could have been happening in Afghanistan since 2002: MALI: The U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to approve the creation of a 12,600-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali starting July 1, which would be able to request the support of...