Friday, September 07, 2018

Gift of God?

An outbreak of acute diarrhoea in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has killed 10 people over the past two weeks and more than 1,200 people have the illness.

The authorities have identified contaminated holy water in some of the region's monasteries as being behind the outbreak. Interfering in religious affairs is a very sensitive matter here, but the local government is working with religious leaders to temporarily stop the use of holy water.

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