Reports

Foreword The 2019 Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) Rural Livelihoods Assessment (RLA) report projected that 59% of the rural population would be cereal insecure during the peak hunger period (January to March 2020). This food insecurity prevalence…

BACKGROUND 1.1. Context** Erratic and poorly distributed rainfall in Zimbabwe for two years has resulted in a severe drought affecting the Provinces of Matabeleland North and South. The same eastern region is yet to recover from unprecedented flooding from Cyclones…

Zimbabwe's worsening food crisis is forcing children to eat only once a day and walk for hours across dry rocky terrain to collect water, according to Save the Children. The agency is warning that without a…

Highlights According to the ZIMVAC (2019) assessments in both rural and urban areas, a total of 7.7 million people (including 3.7 million children) were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in 2019. Cyclone Idai made landfall on 15…

Summary During the month of November and December 2019, IOM DTM carried a baseline assessment in 12 districts affected by Cyclone Idai in Manicaland and Masvingo provinces to monitor and track the locations and priority needs of…

By Craig Dube, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, interviews Tahir Ahmad, head of humanitarian operations at Humanity First HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb 6 2020 (IPS) - In November 2019, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right…

by Reuters Monday, 27 January 2020 13:46 GMT City authorities say they have had to shut down water supplies for 96 hours a week to cope with a sharp fall in reservoir levels caused by the country's worst…

FAST FACTS • An estimated 5.5 million people in rural areas will be foodinsecure starting in January. • Erratic and poorly distributed rainfall at the start of the rainy season in November continued into January, causing high temperatures…

Jaya Chandna, Robert Ntozini, Ceri Evans, Gwendoline Kandawasvika, Bernard Chasekwa, Florence Majo, Kuda Mutasa, Naume Tavengwa, Batsirai Mutasa, Mdhu Mbuya, Lawrence H Moulton, Jean H Humphrey, Andrew Prendergast, Melissa Gladstone The SHINE Trial Team Abstract Introduction HIV-exposed uninfected…

9 January 2020, Beijing – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and China International Development and Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) signed an agreement on 12 December 2019 to provide USD 2 million for humanitarian assistance for populations…