Informes

OVERVIEW Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in Zimbabwe, on the 15 of March 2019. From the 29th of March to the 7th of April 2019 IOM, in close coordination with the Government of Zimbabwe, UN Women and…

Communities living in Chimanimani district, in the mountainous province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe, are slowly coming to terms with the havoc wreaked by Cyclone Idai, which resulted in the deaths of more than 169 people in the…

10 April 2019, Harare – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) airlifted supplies for refugees affected by Cyclone Idai. The consignment, which arrived yesterday at Robert Mugabe International Airport yesterday evening, follows on the…

The International Coordination Group (ICG) has approved 975,646 doses of the oral cholera vaccine (OCV) to be administered in two rounds by mid April 2019. UNICEF and partners reached 2,956 children and adolescents with child protection services. With…

HIGHLIGHTS • DNO Makoni deployed to assist DNO Chimanimani • The cumulative number of OPD consultations are 6,913 patients who have received care at the different health facilities since the cyclone • Twelve boxes of larvicides from National Malaria…

Situation Overview • Flooding following Cyclone Idai in mid-March has affected 270,000 people as of 6 April 2019. • The most heavily affected areas are the districts of Chimanimani and Chipinge in Manicaland which have been isolated due…

Climate change is bringing more weather extremes, and Zimbabwe this year is suffering from opposite crises at once: floods and drought By Tonderayi Mukeredzi HARARE, April 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As eastern Zimbabwe struggles with the aftermath…

On 29 March, upon the request of the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe, the Government of Japan decided to provide emergency relief goods (tents, portable jerry cans, etc.) through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to…

Harare – Switzerland has allocated an additional CHF1 million (US$1.1 million) in humanitarian assistance following the UN and the Government of Zimbabwe’s Flash Appeal that was launched at the end of February 2019. The funding provided…

Introduction Zimbabwe faced one of its greatest tragedies in the month of March. Following several forecasts of an approaching cyclone that was reported likely to affect Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, on 15 March Zimbabwe woke to a…