Reports

By Thabani Okwenjani HARARE, Jun 5, 2012 (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community's protocol on shared watercourses is recognised as one of the world's best. But sound agreements on the sustainable and equitable management of joint…

Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation from Taiwan has effected a shipment of materials for the construction of ten temporary classrooms to improve learning condition. As in Epworth School, Zimbabwe, teachers and students were studying in tents, or…

Tatenda Gumbo & Marvellous Mhlanga Nyahuye | Washington The Zimbabwe National Water Authority or ZINWA has begun a national exercise to register boreholes throughout the country as the water crisis continues to affect many in the cities. Under…

Officials in Masvingo Province, south-eastern Zimbabwe, have confirmed a fresh cholera outbreak in the sugar-producing town of Chiredzi, which has killed two people since Monday. About a 100 cases have been recorded, and authorities are blaming the…

MUREWA, 25 April 2012 (IRIN) - Thousands of poor Zimbabweans have turned to illegal panning for precious minerals, but environmental and water experts say their activities are contributing to the drying up of rivers which many…

Report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights at the 51st Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights under Agenda Item 4e Honorable Chairperson, Commissioners, the Secretary of the African Commission…

Summary: CHF 226,353 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 8 July 2011 to support the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society in delivering assistance to some 30,000 beneficiaries, and to procure and distribute…

By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) - Government and sanitation experts say Zimbabwe needs to increase efforts to promote good hygiene and invest in toilets and clean water provision, as the country grapples with…

By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Apr 17, 2012 (IPS) - Residents of Zimbabwe's water-scarce city, Bulawayo, are concerned about the government’s slow response to finding a permanent source of water to cover their needs. In March the city…

HARARE, 16 April 2012 (IRIN) - Maria Saungweme, 42, an informal trader and single mother from the low-income suburb of Glen Norah in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, uses sewage-infested river water to irrigate her two-acre vegetable…