Zimbabwe: 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: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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,...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
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...
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