Zimbabwe: De-mining frees up farming land
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweDenis Chinyoka limps across a small river to work in his field. It is on virgin land and there are high prospects of a bumper harvest this year if good rains are...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Health fund offers relief for rural women
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Tamuka MaregereThe scrapping of maternal and child healthcare fees through Unicef’s Health Transition Fund (HTF) has put smiles on the faces of rural...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Chikanga clinic swamped by patients
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe Chikanga Polyclinic is reportedly overwhelmed by a growing number of patients from the fast-expanding high-density suburb. As the clinic struggles, expectant...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Women with disabilities face more abuse
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweWomen with disabilities in Zimbabwe continue to suffer violations of their sexual and reproductive health rights despite the fact that the government has ratified...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Cholera epidemic hits Chiredzi
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweAt least ten people have been taken to hospital after another outbreak of cholera epidemic across Chiredzi district.The epidemic, according to sources within the...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Cleaning-up gender based violence in Bindura
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweHeal Zimbabwe in collaboration with the Bindura Municipality, on 2 December 2013 held a Clean-up campaign at Chipadze Shopping Centre in Bindura, in commemoration...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Inputs package targeted at rural women
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Tony SaxonThe Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development is distributing a separate package of farming inputs to women in a bid to boost food...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Chivi in dire need of water and food aid
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Tamuka MaregereThe water situation in Chivi North has reached a critical level. People, and their livestock, are having to travel for more than 10km to get...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Health fund gives hope to country’s hospitals
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Clayton MasekesaFor Mavis Mukubva from Bikita in Masvingo province, the year 2008 will forever be marked in her mind as one of the most disastrous years of her...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Water is top priority for Gweru residents
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweResidents in Gweru have said the provision of adequate, clean and safe water by the local authority is top of the agenda for them in the coming yearTheir concerns...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Zimbabwe will not realise projected food output: CFU
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweFarmers are under-utilising the land due to shortage of inputs and working capital and this development confirmed that the country faces another poor agricultural...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Children learn to identify and avoid landmines
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Thabani DubeAt least 9,300 schoolchildren and thousands more people from communities around the Crooks Corner to Sango border post minefield have been taught...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Patients refused treatment for failing to pay
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Sofia Mapuranga**In an exclusive interview with The Zimbabwean, the director of The Aids and Arts Foundation (TAAF), Emmanuel Gasa, said a lot of people were...
View ArticleMozambique: 14 dead in storms in Nampula
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: MozambiqueThe storms and torrential rains that have hit the northern Mozambican province of Nampula since November have so far caused at least 14 deaths, Radio Mozambique...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Storms kill four in Zambezia
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweStorms in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia have claimed four lives, and eight other people have been injured, reports the Beira daily paper, “Diario de...
View ArticleMozambique: Storms kill four in Zambezia
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: MozambiqueStorms in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia have claimed four lives, and eight other people have been injured, reports the Beira daily paper, “Diario...
View ArticleMozambique: Ten deaths in Mozambican storms
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: MozambiqueSince the start of the 2013-14 rainy season in October, ten people have died in thunderstorms, struck by lightning, according to Mozambique’s relief agency, the...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Group’s work saves women from death in childbirth
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Clayton MasekesaA young pregnant woman in rural Nyamaropa in Nyanga district, Caroline Mangondoza prepares to give birth at home with her mother and her...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Herb centre offers help for people living with HIV
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweFarirai Muzenda from Epworth in Harare is HIV-positive and pregnant with her fifth child. Contrary to expectations, she’s a smiling, healthy woman. She puts her...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Rains wreak havoc in Mberengwa
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Brenna MatendereA heavy storm hit the western part of the district over the weekend- destroying critical infrastructure.Though there were no casualties, roads...
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