Zimbabwe MDC adviser 'kidnapped'

Witnesses say Zimbabwe's opposition MDC adviser Gandhi Mudzingwa was forced by nine gunmen into a car which then drove to the city centre on Monday afternoon.

It would bring to 18 the number of MDC activists and rights campaigners who have vanished in the past six weeks.

President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who has been deadlocked in power-sharing negotiations since September, can do nothing about the current outbreak of cholera.

The UN says nearly 600 Zimbabweans are known to have died in the outbreak, but there are fears that the number may be much higher.