Reports

GLIDE n° FL-2013-000011-ZWE Summary: CHF 266,514 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) in February 2013 to support the Zimbabwe Red Cross (ZRCS) in delivering assistance to some 3,500 beneficiaries (700 households) and to replenish…

This time last year, Siphelile Mahlangu planted maize and sorghum seeds on four acres of land, the equivalent of two football pitches - quite a feat for a 69 year-old woman with limited assistance and two…

HARARE, 26 November 2013 (IRIN) - Conditions in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, are favourable for another outbreak of cholera, the waterborne disease that claimed an estimated 4,200 lives in the country between 2008 and 2009, according to…

HIGHLIGHTS Partners began the food response although a funding shortfall threatens to derail the programme. Continued cases of waterborne diseases remain a concern to partners. A spike in Zimbabwean deportees assisted from Botswana and South Africa was noted in…

Ray Ndlovu The city has had to decommission its major supply dams as water levels fall to drastic levels. Environmentalists fear that persistent water shortages in the ­country's second biggest city over the past two years as a…

Zimbabwe: Water and Sanitation Crisis Government Mismanagement, Corruption Risks Lives of Millions (Harare) – The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease, Human Rights Watch said in a…

By Ombretta Baggio, IFRC Lack of access to water and sanitation and poor hygiene is one of the principal causes of death and disease worldwide. Children are the most often affected as they suffer disproportionately from diarrheal…

I. Executive Summary Zimbabwe continued making steady progress towards recovery and development since the launch of the 2013 humanitarian appeal. On the political front, the holding of a successful referendum ushered in a new Constitution in May. This was…

Zimbabwe - IOM Zimbabwe has received EUR 1 million from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) to provide protection assistance to vulnerable migrants, including asylum seekers arriving in Zimbabwe in mixed migration…

HARARE — Harare residents are mobilizing to reject a move by the Harare City Council to introduce pre-paid water meters saying this is a recipe for disaster that may see many succumbing to water-borne diseases as…