A Zimbabwean human rights activist missing for three weeks was taken to court accused, according to state media, of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe dealt with his country’s growing cholera epidemic crisis today by declaring it did not exist.

The death toll from Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak has risen sharply, the United Nations said, reporting 775 deaths and 16,141 cases of the waterborne disease in the southern African nation.

THE death toll from Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak soared to nearly 800 yesterday and a court ordered police to find a missing rights activist, piling more pressure on President Robert Mugabe’s government.