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Leader of Zimbabwe Doctors Strike Reappears After 5 Days Missing

Gibbs Dube

   The Zimbabwean doctor whose disappearance sparked off a wave of
   doctors' protests across the country, has reappeared, alive.

   Speaking Thursday on VOA Zimbabwe Service's Livetalk program, a
   disoriented-sounding Dr. Peter Magombeyi, the president of the Zimbabwe
   Hospital Doctors' Association, confirmed he was the one on the other
   end of the phone.

   "I honestly don't know how to truly identify myself, but I am Dr. Peter
   Magombeyi, I work at Harare Hospital," he said.

   The doctor, who had been spearheading calls for an increase of doctors'
   salaries when he disappeared on September 15, said he could not
   remember exactly what happened to him or how he ended up where he was
   -- an area called Nyabira, about 33 kilometers from Harare.

   "That part I'm just so vague about, I need time to recall," he said.

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