Associated Press: Zimbabwe Economic Collapse Challenges Aid Workers
Aid agencies such as CARE and Oxfam fighting Cholera in Zimbabwe say they are working relatively well with a government that once viewed them with suspicion, but they still face challenges because of the country’s economic collapse. “We’re operating at what passes for normal in Zimbabwe,” [CARE spokesman Kenneth] Walker said.

Financial Times: Blair reappears as choice to be EU president
Tony Blair is re-emerging as a possible choice to be the European Union’s first full-time president after four momentous crises reinforced the argument for having a high-profile international personality in the job.

Financial Times: ‘Lifestyle’ diseases saddle poor countries
The infectious diseases that have traditionally killed the world’s poor are starting to recede. Instead, people in Africa, India and China are beginning to die of the same things that kill westerners: chiefly, obesity- and smoking-related diseases. This change is known as the “epidemiological transition”. How it plays out over the next few years will determine whether people in poor countries can for the first time expect to live into old age or whether they will simply start dying of different things.

BBC News: Kenya to declare food emergency
Kenya is to declare a national emergency because of a drought affecting the East African country. President Mwai Kibaki’s government warned that nearly 10 million people – more than a quarter of the population – were at risk from food shortages. The government intends to import five million bags of maize, reduce the price of seeds and buy up livestock in drought-hit areas to ease the crisis.Famine relief packages including maize and beans are also to be distributed.

-Chandler Smith