Reports

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received an additional $6.7 million from the Australian Government’s International Development Assistance Programme to improve water and sanitation services in Zimbabwe. Under the new grant more than 260,000 people from…

By Tapuwa Loreen Mutseyekwa SHURUGWI, Zimbabwe, 16 February 2012 – Emily Butau used to wake up every day dreading the task of collecting water for her family. After sending her three children off to school, she would…

Harare, February 15, 2012: U.S. Ambassador Charles Ray officially handed over US$50,000 in grants to five Zimbabwean community-based groups at a grant signing ceremony in Harare on Wednesday. The grants are part of the 32-year-old…

Zimbabwe risks being cut off from electricity provided by Mozambique’s Hydro Cabora Bassa if it fails to pay a $90 million dollar debt Violet Gonda | Washington Energy Minister Elton Mangoma has said Zimbabwe risks being cut off…

Authorities grappling with the typhoid outbreak have called on the local and central governments to overhaul water and sanitation systems to end the outbreaks that have affected more than 2,000 people Sandra Nyaira | Washington Since last October…

Harare city officials have taken satisfaction in the reduced number of daily new cases of typhoid being reported - but residents remain displeased with the shortages of clean running water they must continue to endure Sylvia Manika…

13 February 2012 The Combined Harare Residents Association also complained about the lack of toilets in most households in the Dzivarasekwa 3 development, 40 years after the homes there were constructed Sandra Nyaira | Washington City officials of Harare,…

In recent months, hundreds of Zimbabweans in the country's capital have contracted typhoid with as many as 50 new cases reported daily. But Harare residents say the government response to the outbreak is inadequate. For years,…

HARARE, 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Over the past few weeks some 900 residents of the Zimbabwean capital Harare have been diagnosed with typhoid, and about 60 have been admitted to hospital, say health authorities. “Initially, we…

Cases of typhoid are continuing to rise in Harare, where at least 90 people have been hospitalised and more than a thousand are suspected to have contracted the disease. by Alex Bell Residents in and around the capital…