Cholera hits East Africa

The cholera which is spreading through parts of east Africa is now reported to have killed over thirty people in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

However, government officials dispute this figure, and say only sixteen have died.

Patients in Kenya are said to be suffering especially badly because hospital nurses have been on strike for the past three weeks.

The outbreaks have spread more rapidly because of heavy rain and poor sanitation.

The number of people killed in Zanzibar is now put at over ninety, and there've been deaths elsewhere in Tanzania, as well as in Somalia and Uganda.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service