Reports

Ntungamili Nkomo WASHINGTON DC — The Bulawayo City Council says its tight water rationing regime will continue, citing poor rains that have failed to boost the city’s supply dams. The local authority shuts down water four days per…

Courageous human rights defenders, disappointing compromises, but progress in Zimbabwe January 7, 2013 This report provides information and analysis on developments relating to human rights and institutional reform in Zimbabwe between September 2012 and December 2012. Executive Summary This report,…

Introduction a. Rational for NCA research Action Contre la Faim would like to develop a standardized method for analyzing the causes of malnutrition, as a starting point for improving the relevance and effectiveness of the organization’s programming in…

Residents in Harare have appealed for an urgent solution to end the typhoid crisis in the city, where the disease continues to spread. At least 800 cases have been reported in the capital alone since October, with…

This Emergency Appeal seeks CHF 1,290,342 in cash, kind, or services to support the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) to assist 10,000 beneficiaries for 9 months, and will be completed by September 2013. A Final Report…

The Combined Harare Residents Association has warned that water from unprotected wells in Dzivarasekwa, Mufakose, Budiriro, Glen-view and Highfields contains salmonella-typhea, a bacterium which causes Typhoid. Glen-view has been hit by a Typhoid outbreak that has seen…

The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2013/01000 CONTEXT Since the peak of the humanitarian crisis as a consequence of the political crisis and socio-economic breakdown in 2008/2009, which resulted in…

Tatenda Gumbo WASHINGTON — The Harare Residents' Association says drinking water from unprotected wells carries a big risk of contracting a waterborne disease, such as typhoid, which recently killed at least 5 people in Glenview high density…

4 December 2012, HARARE, Zimbabwe – With 82 per cent of water points still functioning, 96 per cent of latrines (in schools and clinics) still in use, and significant improvement in hygiene practices in Mount Darwin…

Highlights Coverage of food assistance programmes intensifies as lean season sets in. Findings from survey to establish nutrition baseline released. Kampala Convention to come into force. Waterborne diseases remain a cause for concern.