Reports

By Sally Nyakanyanga The day before Cyclone Idai struck, Mandla Mataure, general manager of Chimanimani Hotel, was getting ready for a trip to the capital, Harare. The storm cancelled those plans – washing away roads and bridges,…

“We have mainly been using helicopters to ferry aid, but they don’t carry a lot.” By Tonderayi Mukeredzi IRIN contributor in Zimbabwe Jelle Krings Freelance documentary photographer Roads are being cleared and bridges repaired as the relief effort gets…

Sally Nyakanyanga Freelance journalist based in Harare Hours after Cyclone Idai battered the coast of Mozambique last week, it made its way to Zimbabwe, bringing a wave of destruction with it. Read more on The New Humanitarian

The 150 percent fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrest across Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week. Read more on IRIN.

“We do not risk our lives by trying to drink it” Tonderayi Mukeredzi Dry taps, burst pipes, human excrement flowing out of leaking sewer lines. Residents of Harare’s poor suburbs of Glen View and Budiriro endure these challenges daily.…

Tawanda Majoni Author Note Part of a special project that explores the impact of climate change on the food security and livelihoods of small-scale farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe Laiza Mukute’s 14-hectare plot is a pale shadow…

Critics argue the centralised subsidy scheme has some major gaps and is unsustainable By Tawanda Majoni Zimbabwe is expected to harvest 2.1 million metric tonnes of maize this year after good rains followed successive El Niño-induced droughts. For…

“Seed security is food security” is something of a mantra in developing world agronomy circles. In Zimbabwe, the adage is gradually being put into action by promoting the use of indigenous small grains threatened with extinction…

Sally Nyakanyanga Freelance journalist based in Harare Author Notes Part of a special project that explores the impact of climate change on the food security and livelihoods of small-scale farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe GWANDA, 4 August 2017 Maize…

Best intentions don’t always translate into best practice, as David Dzama found out to his cost. At first, conservation agriculture seemed liked the solution to the climate change-linked problems facing the smallholder farmer in Zimbabwe’s Seke…