Zimbabwe
Humanitarians in Action - April 2012
In this Issue ACF: Wash interventions in Masvingo Highlight of NGO: Africa 2000 Network NGO Operations
Zimbabwe
In this Issue ACF: Wash interventions in Masvingo Highlight of NGO: Africa 2000 Network NGO Operations
Zimbabwe
Key Highlights 2,900 Households to benefit from clean water through rehabilitation of 20 boreholes 6,000 Heads of cattle at risk of tick borne diseases served $70,000 For repairs of 14 schools in Mashonaland East 7,000 Children and 200 teachers to…
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By Alfred Mushonga, International Medical Corps Zimbabwe April 5, 2012— A series of typhoid fever outbreaks have been surging through central and southern Africa since early November 2011. Typhoid usually occurs when water and food sources get…
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by Vusimusi Bhebhe Finance Minister Tendai Biti has scored another coup after getting international donors to agree to a $52-million rescue package that will see the government fund infrastructure rehabilitation in Harare and three other towns. Finance Ministry…
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HIGHLIGHTS More Zimbabweans are at risk of hunger as the midseason dry spell destroyed about 30 per cent of area planted in the 2011/12 agricultural season. Malaria cases shoot above 109,000 in the first quarter of 2012. Lightning kills…
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Often in times of political unrest, the most severe casualty is the shortage of basic human needs. Currently the most severe of these basic shortages is the fresh supply of drinking water in the capital Harare. Locals…
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From the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law Executive Summary According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations in the developing world. Rising temperatures, increasingly severe floods and…
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Mr Jim Drummond, DFID Director for West and Southern Africa announces UK's support to improve infrustructure development in Zimbabwe United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Australian Government today announced that Britain and Australia will…
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Clean drinking water in many parts of Zimbabwe remains a mirage though things are somewhat better than 2008-2009 when many local water systems were in collapse, leaving the population without safe drinking water and even the…
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President Mugabe said climate change had impacted negatively on agricultural production in the country, raising the need for the government to lead the way in providing clean water to the people. Tatenda Gumbo & Obert Pepukai |…