Reports

COUNTRY STRATEGY: WFP in Zimbabwe operates through a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO), which aims to preserve livelihoods and safeguard the nutritional status of chronically food insecure people by addressing the root causes of food insecurity…

INTRODUCTION Zimbabwe’s Constitution is laudable for the inclusion of socio-economic rights in the Declaration of Rights. Just like civil and political, socio-economic rights are equally important as they are basic standards without which people cannot live in…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The highlight of the month of December 2014 was the escalation of intra party conflict within the ruling party, Zanu PF. The wave of intra-party conflicts reported by ZPP in October and November intensified and…

Project code: OSRO/ZIM/203/UK Donor: United Kingdom (DFID) Contribution: GBP 5.5 million (USD 8.9 million) Implementation: 19/11/2012 – 31/10/2013 Target areas: Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, Midlands, Manicaland, Masvingo provinces Objective: To contribute to poverty reduction through protection of livestock assets. Key partners: Ministry…

CHIPINGE DISTRICT, Zimbabwe – It started out like any other delivery. When 24 -year-old Elizabeth Moyana went into labour in her village, Mabeya, near Zimbabwe’s border with Mozambique, she wanted only to give birth to a…

Marvellous Mhlanga-Nyahuye 31.12.2014 21:33 WASHINGTON—Harare City Council Health Director, Prosper Chonzi, is urging residents to practice proper hygiene to avoid contracting typhoid, which has resurfaced in Glenview and Budiriro suburbs. Chonzi told VOA Studio 7 so far about four…

Maize grain and maize flour are the main foods consumed by all households in Zimbabwe. These food items are both produced locally and imported from neighboring countries particularly in the south western provinces of the country. The…

Irwin Chifera WASHINGTON DC— Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Lazarus Dokora, says all pupils who have not yet secured Form One places will be admitted in public schools despite a shortage of schools in the country. In a…

By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE, Dec 24 2014 (IPS) - Zimbabwe boasts of one of the highest rates of literacy across Africa but, but without free primary education, achieving universal primary education here may remain a pipe dream,…

Marvellous Mhlanga-Nyahuye WASHINGTON— The Harare Residents’ Trust (HRT) has called on the Harare City Council to urgently address the water situation as some local people say it is unsafe for domestic purposes. The council’s communications manager Michael Chideme…