Reports

Harare: Describing the hosting of the 18th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Zimbabwe as historic, the UN in Zimbabwe has commended the Government for outstanding leadership in responding to…

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 27 2015 (IPS) - Noel Bhizori has a permanent post at a traffic light in Bulawayo’s central business district where he sells mobile phone recharge cards at a busy intersection. “The profits are little…

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development UN@70 • Localising SDGs • Enhancing Food Security • Ending Child Marriages • Advancing Quality Health Services Contents 02 Note from the UN Resident Coordinator 03 UN@70: Working towards transforming lives and protecting the environment 05…

By Stambuli Kim, Zimbabwe Red Cross Society Life has not been fair for 18-year-old Micho Gatsi, an orphan who stays in the flood prone and drought stricken Mukombwe village, 340 kilometres north of Zimbabwe’s capital. He had to…

*Op-ed by Bishow Parajuli Violent extremists recently killed 130 innocent people in the city of lights and love. Joined by the whole world, Paris, however, remains unfazed by and it will not yield to this outrageous act.…

Responding to Humanitarian Needs and Strengthening Resilience to Food Insecurity Highlights • An estimated 16 percent of the rural population (1.5 million people) is expected to be food insecure during the peak of the lean season (January to…

Set 18 as Minimum Age; Adopt National Action Plan (Lusaka) – Child marriage in Africa often ends a girl’s education, exposes her to domestic violence and grave health risks from early childbearing and HIV, and traps her…

Executive Summary THE restructuring exercise which the ruling Zanu-PF embarked on soon after the party 6th People’s Congress in December 2014 has shored up internal fissures which have been simmering beneath the surface. Conflict within the party has been rife…

Promoting Citizen Participation and Good Governance UNDP supported five key interventions to sustain Zimbabwe’s political and economic recovery. These included: i) enhancing national capacities for the promotion and protection of human rights, the rule of law and…

By Julie Bell BINGA DISTRICT, Zimbabwe — It’s a bad memory for Brenda Mudzonga,* a geography teacher at Mupambe Secondary School in Zimbabwe. During her first six months at the school, there was no room for…