Zimbabwe gender assessment
The aim of this report is to gather evidence that will identify priorities and actions by stakeholders towards positively influencing, up scaling and accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment
Zimbabwe
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As climate change gathers pace, is livestock a problem or solution?
Even during droughts like the one that swept across Zimbabwe last year, Isaac Siziba and his wife Khumutso had food. Their annual harvest did not consist of water-dependent crops, but of goats. "Goats
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Climate-friendly agric transforming lives in Bulilima
Bulilima – The climate in Bulilima, a semi-arid district in Matabeleland South Province of Zimbabwe, is more like that of Kalahari Desert, a desolate tract which covers much of Botswana and parts of Namibia
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Zimbabwe: Kupinga mini hydro begins power generation
Kupinga Mini Hydro Power Station in Chipinge Zimbabwe has started generating electricity – operating at 92% capacity and generating 1,400kW. The Herald reported that the establishment of the plant,
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Zimbabwe: Maternal Deaths Top 176
Over 170 expecting mothers died giving birth since the beginning of the year,according to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Health and Child Care in its weekly disease update. "The Ministry of
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Southern Africa: Zim, SA Lose 1m Chickens to Bird Flu
Zimbabwe and South Africa have lost over one million chickens to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), it has been learnt. The disease hit the two countries recently, threatening the livelihood
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Zimbabwe: 'Harare Now Free of Typhoid'
There are no more cases of typhoid in Harare owing to measures taken by the Ministry of Health and Child Care and its partners, a Cabinet minister has said. Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa
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Marange villagers take on mining giant
Mining companies commit environmental crimes such as contamination of water bodies with chemicals such as cyanide and mercury and air pollution caused by blasting and chimney smoke Mining companies
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Zimbabwe court halts mining at state diamond firm over environment permit
The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) was formed in March last year after President Robert Mugabe's government evicted all diamond mining firms in the Marange fields in the east of the country
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Zimbo nurse wins HIV-TB prize for life-saving TB test research
Mathabire, who works with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), won the HIV/TB research prize for her groundbreaking HIV/TB research on the use of a portable test for TB among severely ill HIV patients in Mozambique
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Zimbabwe: Malaria Ravages Manicaland
Manicaland Province has the highest malaria morbidity and mortality in Zimbabwe, with Chipinge District contributing 34 percent of the figures. Nyanga comes second with 18 percent. Speaking at belated