“I am happy we are being assisted by others and we have arrested cholera,” Mr Mugabe said in a speech, despite UN reports of a growing death toll. “Now that there is no cholera there is no case for war.”

Someone’s taking those military intervention rumours seriously, then. I also note that South Africa’s Limpopo province has declared a disaster area in the border district of Vhembe, including Musina, after 8 deaths and over 660 treatments linked to Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak. No problem, then…