Reports

HIGHLIGHTS Partners began the food response although a funding shortfall threatens to derail the programme. Continued cases of waterborne diseases remain a concern to partners. A spike in Zimbabwean deportees assisted from Botswana and South Africa was noted in…

• Food insecurity is likely to increase significantly during the next lean season due to two consecutive years of poor maize production, much reduced food stocks, low import capacity and a slowdown in economic recovery after…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The levels of politically motivated human rights violations continued on a downward trend throughout the country with the majority of recorded cases being of discrimination and the politicisation of the distribution of farming inputs. There were 313…

KEY MESSAGES • As a result of poor rainfall during the 2012/13 season there are pockets of Stressed (IPC Phase 2) and Crisis (IPC Phase 3) food insecurity in several cereal deficit areas, particularly in the southern…

29 October 2013 – Some 2.2 million Zimbabweans will need food assistance in the pre-harvest period from January to March next year, a United Nations agency said today, warning that food security in the southern African…

MAZOWE, 29 October 2013 (IRIN) - The face of Lydia Madhoro, 25, is dusted red from soil as she and her three female colleagues take a brief lunch break. They have been working since dawn on…

HARARE — Following recent reports that Zimbabwe will from next year introduce a new vaccine known as rotavirus for children under the age of five, health experts have commended the government saying the development will help…

HARARE — Despite being sexually active as well as vulnerable to rape and other forms of sexual abuse, disabled people say they are overlooked in national HIV prevention strategies because policymakers do not perceive them as…

This development follows a report in the Senate that most children do not attend school because of hunger and the government plans to implement feeding programs in schools. Sithandekile Mhlanga 25.10.2013 WASHINGTON — The World Food Program (WFP) says…

Mavis Gama 25.10.2013 Zimbabwe has teamed up with United Nations agencies to conduct a week-long Mass Drug Administration Programme in an effort to eliminate diseases such as bilharzia and intestinal infections. The targeted areas are 57 of the 63…