Forget Mugabe — help his people

IT has been more than 10 years since cholera swept through refugee camps in Zaire.

GOAL’s job was to bury the bodies. Scarcely a night has passed since that I have not been haunted by images of the children piled high on the death trucks.

They are always the first to die. Sometimes a child might be discovered still alive under a mountain of corpses.

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