Zimbabwe: Giving young women power against poverty
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Sofia MapurangaAn emerging organisation, committed to helping young women, has embarked on an initiative to empower female students as a way of reducing the...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Army accused of beating and harassing flooded villagers
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweVillagers living along the Tokwe Mukosi dam basin have accused troops and police harassing and intimidating them for resisting eviction.The soldiers and police...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Women’s group fights for recognition
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Clayton MasekesaRaised in a community that looks down upon women entrepreneurs, members of Chigodora HIV and AIDS Prevention Organization (CHAPO) in Mutare...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Govt urged to use NGO expertise
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Sofia MapurangaGovernment should partner civil society organisations and implement a comprehensive and coordinated approach to help families affected by floods...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Villagers face starvation as aid agency pulls out
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweVillagers in Makoni district are facing food shortages as aid agencies are pulling out, citing financial constraints.Villagers told The Zimbabwean that the...
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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 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...
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...
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