Mugabe was just kidding about cholera being cured

Posted By Joshua Keating Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 3:50 PM Share

Remember when Robert Mugabe said Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic had ended, the same day the WHO said another 60,000 people were at risk? Apparently that was a hilarious joke:

[T]oday George Charamba, Mr Mugabe’s spokesman, told The Herald newspaper – a government mouthpiece – that the octogenarian president was using “sarcasm” when he made the statement.

ROFL! He sure got us good.

The Herald also has a truly batty article today, saying that the United States engineered the outbreak.

Photo: ALESSANDRO DI MEO/AFP/Getty Images

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