Reports

Highlights According to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) the total water inflow at the Tokwe Mukorsi dam is estimated at 86.97m3/s down from 105.28m3/s. Meanwhile, dam levels across the country have increased during the course of this…

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) is deeply concerned with reports of a diarrhoea outbreak that has hit Chingwizi transit camp where at least 3 400 families displaced by the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam flooding…

Highlights According to national authorities, movement of people from the dam basin has been completed. Currently an estimated 2,800 households (HHs) are staying in Chingwizi camp. An estimated 1,000 HHs did not receive any tents or tarpaulins and remain…

The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society has activated its Disaster Response Teams in response to the floods that has affected and displaced many families around Zimbabwe. As a leading humanitarian and disaster relief orgnaisation, the National Society…

Hansika Bhagani, IFRC Surrounded by her five children, the youngest of whom is just a toddler, Gamuchirai Nhamo recalls spending three days in labour for each of their births. Now, she is in her ninth month of…

Highlights To date 3,338 households have been moved to Chingwizi resettlement camp. The growing population at the camp makes planning difficult and is further straining limited facilities and resources. Heavy rains at Chingwizi on 2 and 3 March have…

by Margaret Masanga and Nelly Maonde, Trócaire Zimbabwe Trócaire marks International Women’s Day (8 March) with an inspirational story of resilience from Zimbabwe. "If you fall into a river in Matabeleland, you get up and dust yourself." -…

Highlights More than 2,514 households living upstream of Tokwe Mukorsi Dam in Masvingo Province were affected by flooding and are being relocated to alternate sites. To date 2,194 households have been moved to the Chingwizi resettlement camp, with…

Natalia López-Thismón, ADRA International Thousands of vulnerable villagers are evacuating the areas surrounding the Tokwe Murkosi Dam in Zimbabwe. The water behind the dam, which is currently under construction, rose to 671 meters (2,201 feet) above sea…

by CHRA A Typhoid outbreak has hit Mabvuku high density suburb with at least nine cases confirmed so far. The suburb, which has been prone to typhoid outbreaks on a yearly basis, especially during the rainy season,…