$2m to save livestock
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe by Zwanai Sithole The government has released $2 million to save 600,000 head of livestock from drought in Matabeleland province. Acting Finance Minister...
View ArticleInfrastructure collapse threatens food security
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe Farmers are concerned that Zimbabwe could be heading for another disastrous farming season due to poor preparations. Already, as reported by The Zimbabwean...
View ArticleRefugee dilemma
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe, Rwanda Rwandan Refugees living in the country say they do not know what awaits them when they are forced to go home. The international community and the...
View ArticleWomen’s roadmap to elections
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe The Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe is concerned that the Government of National Unity formed in 2008 has lagged behind in implementing critical issues...
View ArticleICRC’s withdrawal burdens council
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe A recent study on the evaluation of health financing policies and strategies for Harare city health services revealed that the council will not be able to...
View ArticleWomen seek legal recourse over forced sterilisation
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe Women living with HIV are documenting evidence regarding forced sterilisation with the aim of seeking recourse in the country’s courts, The Zimbabwean has...
View ArticleISL launches sanitary pad project
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe Concerned at the large numbers of women condemned by poverty to using newspapers, rags and tree barks as substitutes for sanitary pads, a local...
View ArticleChiefs demand farm inputs
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe Stung by hunger due to drought in the last farming season, traditional leaders in Mwenezi have called on government to give them farming inputs to improve...
View ArticleNeed for protection from arbitrary arrest
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe Paul Bogaert Everyone involved in making our new constitution must ensure that it contains watertight provisions that outlaw arbitrary and malicious arrest...
View ArticleGvt sets up Human Rights Commission
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe After a long political stand-off, government on Friday gazetted the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Act (Chapter 10:30). Gvt sets up Human Rights Commission...
View ArticleIrrigation scheme a life-saver
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe by Thomas Madhuku The re-establishment of Zuwa Rabuda Irrigation Scheme in Mutandahwe has saved the community from persistent drought and hunger, villagers...
View ArticleWater woes: girls suffer more
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe by Edgar Gweshe The erratic water supplies that have characterized this satellite town have left young girls vulnerable to sexual abuse as they have to fetch...
View ArticlePregnant women turned away
Source: The Zimbabwean Country: Zimbabwe by Zwanai Sithole Harare As a result of critical food shortages at Lusulu Clinic, the staff will only admit pregnant women if they bring their own food...
View ArticleKeeping girls in school
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe Girl Child Network has intensified its efforts to empower girls through educational programmes that ensure they stay in school.The Director for Girl Child...
View ArticleGweru residents fear cholera outbreak
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweGweru residents say they fear the heaps of decomposing garbage found at various points in the city centre could become a breeding ground for cholera with the...
View ArticleVillagers to benefit from irrigation scheme
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweMore than 1 000 families here are set to benefit from a 2 000 acre irrigation scheme being implemented by the government.The irrigation scheme in the Manjolo...
View ArticleMahusekwa dam to boost livelihoods
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweMahusekwa Dam is set to be turned into a community-driven, income generating water body after the intervention of a non-governmental organisation.“We will work...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Villagers eat roots
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweDrought hit the villages of Mt Darwin so hard this year that families have been left with no option but to eat tree roots to survive.In Karanda village, 160km...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Water woes: what are the options?
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweSeveral suburbs across the city have experienced serious water shortages, raising fears that typhoid will continue to spread in the capital.Areas affected are...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Women barter to beat hunger
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweInnovative women here are traveling far and wide to exchange potatoes for the basic necessities to clothe and feed their families.Mount Darwin is one of the...
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