A string of cholera outbreaks have spread through Cote d’Ivoire this year, with the most recent hitting the country’s economic capital, Abidjan, and leading the minister of health to declare an epidemic. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that statistics provided by Medecins Sans Frontieres/Holland showed that there have been 321 cases of cholera in the western part of the country since the beginning of the year, including two deaths.