Zimbabwe: Sex for maize as hunger stings
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweCommercial sex workers and desperate women in arid Chikombedzi in the Lowveld district of Chiredzi are offering sex in return for maize in a bid to avert hunger.A...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Community-built maternity shelter
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweDue to the heightened shortage of maternity wards at a local clinic, Somabhula villagers recently pooled their resources for the construction of a shelter for...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Power cuts stop irrigation
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweConstant power cuts and high bills could cripple irrigation agriculture and affect more than 500 farmers here.The farmers, who work at night when power is...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Bulawayo residents faces fifth day with no water
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweMany areas in Zimbabwe’s second largest city went for a fifth day without water on Friday as the Minister for Water Resources, Sam Sipepa Nkomo, was in Bulawayo...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Life-sustaining vegetables
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe Zimbabwe Rural Development Trust has enabled many rural people to support themselves during some of the bleakest years of the country’s history.Susan...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Mutare needs $13 million for water
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe city needs $13 million to upgrade its sewage system to meet international standards, a top official has said. Obert Muzawazi told journalists during a press...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Funding means more ARVs
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweShortages of antiretroviral drugs will soon be a thing of the past as more funding for the anti-HIV drugs has been secured, says National Aids Council Chief...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Farming success for Guruve women
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweWomen in the remote district of Guruve are defying odds to stamp their authority on the previously male-dominated agriculture industry.The first 10 years after...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Mushroom project brings smiles to villagers
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Thomas MadhukuBeneficiaries of a mushroom project initiated early this year in Rimbi village area have started harvesting their produce with villagers praising...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Water shortages in schools
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe government is concerned about water shortages in schools across the country, according to the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David...
View ArticleZimbabwe: $2m to save livestock
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Zimbabweby Zwanai SitholeThe government has released $2 million to save 600,000 head of livestock from drought in Matabeleland province.Acting Finance Minister Gorden...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Infrastructure collapse threatens food security
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweFarmers are concerned that Zimbabwe could be heading for another disastrous farming season due to poor preparations. Already, as reported by The Zimbabwean...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Refugee dilemma
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: Rwanda, ZimbabweRwandan 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 ArticleZimbabwe: Women’s roadmap to elections
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweThe Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe is concerned that the Government of National Unity formed in 2008 has lagged behind in implementing critical issues concerning...
View ArticleZimbabwe: ICRC’s withdrawal burdens council
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweA 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 provide...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Women seek legal recourse over forced sterilisation
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweWomen living with HIV are documenting evidence regarding forced sterilisation with the aim of seeking recourse in the country’s courts, The Zimbabwean has...
View ArticleZimbabwe: ISL launches sanitary pad project
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweConcerned at the large numbers of women condemned by poverty to using newspapers, rags and tree barks as substitutes for sanitary pads, a local non-governmental...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Chiefs demand farm inputs
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweStung 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 the...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Need for protection from arbitrary arrest
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabwePaul BogaertEveryone involved in making our new constitution must ensure that it contains watertight provisions that outlaw arbitrary and malicious arrest of...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Gvt sets up Human Rights Commission
Source: The ZimbabweanCountry: ZimbabweAfter a long political stand-off, government on Friday gazetted the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Act (Chapter 10:30).Gvt sets up Human Rights Commission After...
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