Reports

THEMATIC OVERVIEW Theme: Changing Face of Victims As the dynamics in the body politic continue to exhibit unprecedented factionalism; multilayering of disputes; as well as new players, the face of the victim has been changing. Victims’ profiles have in…

Highlights  WFP Zimbabwe’s Lean Season Assistance programme will be extended to continue running throughout the year and into next year to address high food insecurity.  WFP’s 2016-17 El Niño Response Plan urgently requires USD 200 million…

HUMANITARIAN NEEDS Zimbabwe, a country where 72 percent 1 of the population live in chronic poverty, is currently in the grip of an intense drought that has expanded and strengthened since the earliest stages of the 2015-2016…

Lean season assistance extends by one month due to prevailing Crisis (IPC Phase 3) food insecurity outcomes Key Messages The peak of the lean season continues across most of Zimbabwe. Currently most households are facing Crisis (IPC Phase…

Highlights Nationally, admissions of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) have increased from 1,607 in January to 1,734 in February 2016. In the four districts where active nutrition screening is taking place, the number of children admitted…

Dewa Mavhinga Senior Researcher, Africa Division Last week, Zimbabwe’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that the government is developing laws to make it a criminal offense to pay lobola (bride wealth) for girls under age 18. It was…

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.…

Sebastian Mhofu CHIPINGE, ZIMBABWE — Here at Chachacha village in southeast Zimbabwe, men force their cattle into a truck bound for market. Drought brought on by particularly severe El Nino weather patterns has left 14 million people…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2000-2015 deadline ended on 31 December 2015 and has since been will be replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2016-2030, to be launched in 2016. The MDGs have served as…

Because of the drought in Zimbabwe, Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation deliver 440 tons of rice to reduce crisis of the food shortage. The relief mission benefit almost 200,000 in 42,000 families. In Mt Darwin, Mashonaland…