Reports

HIGHLIGHTS • The death toll has risen to 172 people and 327 are still missing, according to government reports. • About 270,000 people have been affected by flooding and landslides. • Nearly 4,500 people are displaced and at least…

 As of 21 March 2019, a total of 250,000 people are reported to be affected by the floods in nine districts. An estimated 48 per cent of the affected population is under 18 years of…

HIGHLIGHTS • At least 250,000 people are reported to have been affected by the cyclone, according to preliminary assessments. • The official death toll rose to 154 people on 21 March and at least 187 were still missing;…

Editor: xuxin HARARE, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese government has decided to donate 800,000 U.S. dollars in cash as emergency humanitarian assistance to Zimbabwe to help the country with its disaster relief efforts, an envoy said Friday. China…

01 – 31 January 2019 255 asylum seekers arrived during the month of January of which 89% were from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Sub-agreements were signed with all partners and the first installment disbursed to all…

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

Harare, ZIMBABWE–Displaced women, among them pregnant women, have lost critical health supplies including ante-natal care records, iron supplements and ARVs, which have been washed away with their belongings in flooding across two provinces. Women and girls from…

HIGHLIGHTS The death toll has risen to 139 people and 189 are still missing, according to government reports. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared 23 and 24 March 2019 as National Mourning Days. The scale of destruction in Manicaland and…

SITUATION On the morning of Friday the 15 March 2019, the province of Manicaland in Zimbabwe was hit by Cyclone Idai, causing massive floods that destroyed houses, swept away fields, uprooted trees, and demolished bridges. Cyclone Idai…

Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe at the weekend with reported deaths of hundreds of people across southern Africa, with thousands more affected. Global organization Mercy Corps is responding in Zimbabwe, where this is the…