Mozambique: 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...
View ArticleMozambique: Flood on Pungue river worsening
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Mozambique, ZimbabweThe flood on the Pungue river in the central Mozambican province of Sofala is worsening, and the river is now swirling over sections of the main road...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Schools Closed as Flooding continues
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweAt least two schools have been closed leaving thousands of students stranded as the humanitarian crisis along the Tokwe Murkosi dam basin worsens by each day.The...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Hunger stalks Matabeleland as food aid struggles to cope
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Pamenus TusoA frail looking baby eagerly clutched her mother’s breast and sucked. She suddenly stopped and faintly cried. Nothing. The milk has dried up.“I can...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Reaching out to the rural vulnerable
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Clayton MasekesaAs the heavy wind blows, it threatens to carry away the rusty metal roof sheets that are loosely patched. There are no window-panes in most of...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 11 doctors help Tokwe Mukosi victims
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweA team of 11 volunteer doctors has been dispatched to Chingwizi area where over 2,500 families displaced by the Tokwe Mukosi dam flooding are currently staying...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Disaster aid stuck at SA border
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweHumanitarian assistance intended for flood-hit areas of Zimbabwe remains stuck in South Africa for lack of transport.The assistance was mobilised by the Barbara...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Typhoid Outbreak Hits Mabvuku
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby CHRAA Typhoid outbreak has hit Mabvuku high density suburb with at least nine cases confirmed so far. The suburb, which has been prone to typhoid outbreaks on...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Young women mobilise for sanitary wear for flood victims
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweIn a move aimed at addressing the sexual and reproductive health challenges of women and girls affected by the Tokwe Mukosi flooding, a group of young women from...
View ArticleZimbabwe: UNICEF gives millions to WUA
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe United Nations Children’s Fund last week donated goods worth millions of dollars to the Women’s University in Africa (WUA) to support the introduction of a...
View ArticleZimbabwe: More research needed on TB treatment defaulters
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweManicaland, Midlands and Chitungwiza provinces recorded the highest number of people who defaulted on tuberculosis treatment, according to the health ministry.In...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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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