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