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Zimbabwe: Small-scale farmers bemoan Zinwa levy

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweSmall holder farmers have criticised the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) for ripping them off by levying the water they are harvesting from mountains...

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Zimbabwe: NGO trains children to fight abuse

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweDefence for Children International Zimbabwe (DCIZ) has blamed ‘well-wishers’ for the rising cases of child abuse.The chief executive, Elfas Mcloud Zadzagomo, said...

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Zimbabwe: Health ministry launches rotavirus vaccine

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe health ministry says the rotavirus vaccine, which fights diarrhoea in children, is now available at most health centres for children under five.“There has...

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Zimbabwe: Typhoid kills nine, 370 fresh cases reported

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe ministry of Health and Child Care says a new outbreak of typhoid, a waterborne disease, has killed nine people while 370 fresh cases were reported in Harare,...

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Zimbabwe: GVT officially closes Chingwizi holding camp

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe government has officially closed Chingiwizi transit camp where at least 12 000 people affected by flooding along the Tokwe Mukosi dam basin have been staying...

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Zimbabwe: Hunger tightens grip in Chingwizi

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Regerai TukutukuHunger and starvation have tightened their grip at the Chingwizi holding camp where more than 3,000 people displaced by the floods along the...

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Zimbabwe: Vulnerable groups get irrigation lifeline

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Pamenus TusoWhen Portia Mucharemba and other ward 19 villagers in Shurugwi were relocated from their homesteads and farming plots in 2000 to pave the way for...

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Zimbabwe: Villagers face water crisis at Arda Transau

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweA serious health hazard is looming at Arda Transau where villagers who were relocated from Chiadzwa by Anjin Investments have been without access to clean water...

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Zimbabwe: Sex workers using anti-HIV drugs instead of condoms

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweIn Zimbabwe, 1.2 million people are living with HIV, and there are around 100,000 new infections every year. Despite this, some sex workers are having unprotected...

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Zimbabwe: Women fatten cattle to help orphans, widows

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweSilenjongo Trust, a group of HIV-positive women in Bubi district in Matabeleland North, has embarked on a cattle fattening project aimed to assist orphans and...

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Zimbabwe: Fighting malaria from all angles

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabweby Thabani DubeSouthern African countries have pledged to work together to fight malaria through the Regional Network on...

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Zimbabwe: Politicisation of food aid hits Chingwizi holding camp

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThousands of villagers displaced by the Tokwe Mukosi floods have been living in appalling conditions in Chingize holding camp since January.Last month, with their...

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Zimbabwe: Flood victims start sewing, knitting club

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Tonderai SaharoAmid the gloom of life among victims of the Tokwe Mukosi dam floods housed in tents at Chingwizi camp, some enterprising individuals have come...

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Zimbabwe: NGOs spend $3m at Chingwizi

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweContrary to government claims that Non Governmental Organisations were shunning Chingwizi flood victims, it emerged this week that the NGOs have so far spent...

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Zimbabwe: Zim’s food security in distress: CFU

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweZimbabwe’s maize production is still far below the country’s consumption figures, says the Commercial Farmers Union President, Charles Taffs.Failure by government...

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Zimbabwe: Accommodation woes persist for people living with HIV

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Sofia MapurangaPeople living with HIV (PLWHIV) in urban areas are appealing to the government to allocate them residential stands because they are being...

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Zimbabwe: CHRA community monitors expose serious diarrhoea outbreak in Mabvuku

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweMabvuku residents have been hit by another deadly diarrhoea outbreak which has infected more than 900 people with women and children being the worst affected.This...

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Zimbabwe: Mass movement of people in search of water causes friction in...

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweRural community meetings, such as one held recently in Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme south of Mutare, are usually placid affairs dealing with mundane matters. Not...

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Zimbabwe: Political polarisation tearing apart Rural Communities

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweMore than a decade old political polarisation has a become a cancer that is fast tearing apart the once united rural community thwarting development, villagers...

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Zimbabwe: Food security project launched in Shurugwi

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Brenna Matendere MunyatiA $15,000 market gardening project was formally initiated by British Ambassador Deborah Bronnert last week.The Gwemombe Women’s Group...

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Zimbabwe: Rural girls to receive sanitary wear

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Pamenus TusoVana VeZimbabwe (Vavez) has embarked on the distribution of sanitary wear to disadvantaged girls in Matabeleland South.The director, Josh Nyapimbi,...

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Zimbabwe: Shortage of schools critical

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Pamenus TusoThe newly elected Mangwe junior MP, Sarudzai Tigere, says the shortage of primary schools in her constituency is critical and has led to children...

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Zimbabwe: City suffers with 70,000 illegal water users

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweHarare City Council is losing thousands of dollars every month from 70,000 unregistered water connections, The Zimbabwean has learnt.“The city has a total of...

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Zimbabwe: Self-help schemes bring hope to the forgotten poor

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweCapacity building and agro-business training programmes spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Development Democracy Trust (ZDDT) have brought hope to some residents in...

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Zimbabwe: HIV positive students suffer discrimination

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweDespite years of hard work by government agencies, NGOs and community groups, youths living with HIV and Aids are still stigmatised at school and in their...

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Zimbabwe: $2m for flood victims’ relocation

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweGovernment has secured $2 million dollars to compensate the flood victims in Masvingo who have been living under inhuman conditions since February this year.Some...

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Zimbabwe: Innovative food bank keeps families going

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweAn innovative food bank in Mutiusinazita in Buhera district is providing poor families with access to maize during the hunger season, reports reports CLAYTON...

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Zimbabwe: Mountain of Hope - ensuring food security for communities in...

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweBecoming a member of the Mountain of Hope, a community garden project in Wedza, Mashonaland East is not only bringing financial benefits for Tracy Simango, 46.For...

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Zimbabwe: Resettled farmers to lose land

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweImpoverished A1 farmers are in panic mode following reports that Zanu (PF)’s December congress is planning to sub-divide their land into plots and allocate them...

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Zimbabwe: Pineapple farming makes life sweet for rural women

Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweNestled in the foothills of the scenic Chimanimani Mountains, bordering the national park and Mozambique, lies a field of pineapples managed by a group of...

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