Acute watery diarrhea in Somalia has killed hundreds of people this year, the Minister of Health said March 20 as aid agencies warned the nation was in the midst of a cholera outbreak. “The death toll is in the hundreds (but) we don’t believe there is cholera in the country,” Health Minister Qamar Adan Ali said in a telephone interview. The WHO said in a report this week acute watery diarrhea has killed 251 people and had infected 5,602 since January. (Reuters)