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Digging riverbeds in Zimbabwe in desperate search for water
By BBC News One of the worst droughts in living memory is sweeping across southern Africa, leaving close to 70 million people without enough food and water. In Mudzi district in northern Zimbabwe, a community and their livestock are gathered on a bone-dry riverbed. The Vombozi normally flows throughout the year but right now, it…
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Beneficiate resources to avoid labour migration, says the Pan African Parliament
By Tatenda Chitagu MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA-Africa should beneficiate its vast resource endowments as failure to do so entails exporting jobs to Europe and other continents leading to brain drain through labour migration, the continental legislative body, the Pan African Parliament (PAP) has said. Speaking during the ongoing PAP committee sittings here, Amos Masondo, a South…
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Eight years on, right to health for Chingwizi women still a pipe dream
Hazvinei Mwanaka MASVINGO – SHE suddenly felt a sharp pain below her abdomen and to her, this was nothing out of the ordinary, or so she thought. This was the fifth time she experienced such pain, so she knew immediately that she was going into labour. Slowly she got out of the maize field where…
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Masvingo flood survivors drink untreated water
Hazvinei Mwanaka and Tatenda Chitagu MWENEZI-Martha Moyo (24) lives a stone’s throw away from a borehole drilled by a humanitarian organisation a few years after she was resettled in Nuanetsi Ranch in the hot and arid Mwenezi district of Masvingo province in 2014. But she barely remembers when last she fetched water from it. “I…
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Ahead of COP 27, Zimbabwe digs in on coal phase-out
By Tatenda Chitagu HARARE-As the world meets for the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) set for early next month, Zimbabwe has claimed an abrupt phasing out of coal will increase energy poverty among its 15 million inhabitants. The COP, organised almost each year by the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), will take…
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Old rags in underwear: the sad tales of period poverty for Zimbabwe’s internally displaced persons
By Tatenda Chitagu The old tent that provides cover at a makeshift blair toilet for Martha Moyo in Nuanetsi Ranch is tattered and it is matter of time before it gives in to the vagaries of the weather. But Moyo, one of the 17 000 flood survivors from the basin of Zimbabwe’s biggest inland dam,…