Reports

Summary The DREF funds received enabled the national society to continue with start up activities which included beneficiary selection, identification of boreholes to be rehabilitated, commodity supplier identification and volunteer mobilization. Further consultation with district authorities highlighted the…

HARARE, 29 January 2013 (IRIN) - Short: Flash floods strike Zimbabwe's dry areas Flash flooding across Zimbabwe's Masvingo and Matabeleland provinces, normally dry areas, has caused substantial damage to infrastructure. While more than 4,000 people across the…

By Stanley Kwenda HARARE, Jan 28 2013 (IPS) - For three weeks Tavonga Kwidini and his wife Maria had no tap water in their home in Glen View, one of the many dry suburbs in Zimbabwe’s capital,…

Flood waters subside but leave substantial damages to infrastructure; Some 8,490 people have been affected Flood waters are slowly subsiding around the country including at the worst affected spot, Beitbrige where transportation came to a stand still…

Highlights Food programme scaled up as peak of lean season sets in. Army worm outbreak reported in four provinces. High cases of mental illness among deportees cause for concern. Rain-related incidents reported in parts of Zimbabwe.

HARARE — Winners of the Auxillia Chimusoro Alumni Awards were honored Thursday night with American ambassador Bruce Wharton pledging the United States government’s more than $95 million to support Zimbabwe’s national HIV/AIDS response. Ambassador Wharton said the…

3 children die in Beitbridge, another 4,400 people affected by floods across Zimbabwe Heavy rains this week continued to cause damage to lives and livelihoods, affecting an estimated 4,475 people across Zimbabwe whose houses have either been…

Despite recent heavy rains in most parts of the country, most districts in Matabeleland South province were still dry at the weekend. Matabeleland South Provincial Administrator Midard Khumalo told The Zimbabwean the province had only received light…

IOM, in collaboration with Zimbabwe’s Department of Civil Protection, is providing humanitarian aid to thousands of victims of flooding in Zimbabwe. Heavy rains, which began on 14th of January 2013, have left a trail of destruction across…

HARARE, 24 January 2013 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's education system, once regarded as the finest on the continent, was a casualty of the country's economic meltdown in the 2000s, when it nearly collapsed - but lately there…