Charities Fight Cholera in Angola

In response to one of the worst cholera epidemics to strike Africa in nearly a decade, Doctors Without Borders has organized the distribution of free chlorine and the United Nations is distributing free clean water in Angola, where the local water supply is severely contaminated with garbage and human waste, reports The New York Times.

“I have never seen anything like it,” David Weatherill, a water and sanitation expert for Doctors Without Borders, told the newspaper. “You see conditions like this on a smaller scale. But I have never seen it on such a huge scale. It is quite shocking.”