Zimbabwe
By Stambuli Kim, Zimbabwe Red Cross Society Life has not been fair for 18-year-old Micho Gatsi, an orphan who stays in the flood prone and drought stricken Mukombwe village, 340 kilometres north of Zimbabwe’s capital. He had to…
Zimbabwe
Harare, 18 November 2015 – The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has announced the allocation of US$ 8.1 million to Zimbabwe to support life-saving interventions in its Food Insecurity Response Plan launched in October…
Zimbabwe
This 19 November we celebrate World Toilet Day! Why celebrate such an unglamorous invention? Because in some parts of the world, better sanitation and hygiene – including proper toilets – is helping bring relief in more…
Zimbabwe
By: Takemore Mazuruse, Zimbabwe Red Cross Society Brighton Makota, a Zimbabwean orphan from rural Muzarabani District, Mashonaland Central, paints a grim picture as he details his family's food insecurity situation. "I stay with my elderly grandparents and other…
Zimbabwe
Summary: A slow onset of the rainy season was followed by severe flooding that destroyed crops. This situation was followed, and exacerbated, by a long dry spell, resulting in a crop yield below the 5 year average. Zimbabwe…
Zimbabwe
Harare, 9 October 2015 – The United Nations in Zimbabwe appealed today to humanitarian and development partners for US$ 86 million to urgently fill a shortfall to support 1.5 million people affected by food insecurity in…
Zimbabwe
About four years ago, a visitor to Lukona village in Bubi district, Matabeleland North, would have been greeted by a landscape littered with human waste and scraps of toilet paper. Family members of the 37 homesteads in…
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 approved combined loans and grants amounting to US $428.43 million to finance projects in energy, infrastructure, transport and water and…
Zimbabwe
Summary A slow onset of the rainy season in Zimbabwe was followed by severe flooding that destroyed crops. This situation was followed, and exacerbated, by a long dry spell, resulting in a crop yield below the 5…
Zimbabwe
WFP's Food for Asset and Productive Asset Creation programmes are strengthening communities’ resilience to climactic shocks by rehabilitating 114 dams across the country It’s half past five on a cool summer morning in Mwenezi, Zimbabwe and Zvodai…
