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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Zimbabwe's new 'GOAT' currency? Minister announces livestock-for-school-fees plan
Harare - Cash-strapped Zimbabwe's latest plan to have parents pay school fees in goats has got some Zimbabweans up in arms - but not everyone thinks it's a bad idea. Education Minister Lazarus Dokora
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Namibia: Botswana Tremor Felt in Zambezi Region
PANIC and fear gripped the Zambezi region after people felt the tremor from the earthquake that hit Botswana at around 19h40 on Monday night. Official reports stated that the earthquake with a magnitude
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Zimbabwe: Govt Sets Up Quake Committee
Government has set a task team comprising experts to assess the country's state of preparedness to earthquakes and the capacity of the Meteorological Services Department to carry out its mandate. This
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Zimbabwe: Zimnat Pays Out Weather Related Damage Claims
INSURANCE group, Zimnat has paid out in excess of $2 million in weather related damage claims in the four months to March 2017 following high rainfall across the country. During the rain season, incidents
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WFP launches five-year plan to end hunger in Zimbabwe
HARARE Zimbabwe (Xinhua) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Zimbabwean government on Monday jointly launched a 253 million U.S. dollars five-year plan to build resilience, end hunger
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U.N. food agency launches $250 million Zimbabwe plan to end hunger
Climate disasters, poverty, a fragile economic environment, low agricultural output and HIV and AIDS are the major causes of hunger in Zimbabwe HARARE, April 3 (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food
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China donate U.S. one million dollars to Zimbabwean flood victims
HARARE Zimbabwe (Xinhua) -- China on Friday handed over 1.06 million U.S. dollars to Zimbabwe to help hundreds of families affected by floods that hit the southern parts of the country in February.
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Slow carbon credit sales hinder Zimbabwe forest protection
HURUNGWE, Zimbabwe, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the world's largest forest conservation projects has managed to curb deforestation in northern Zimbabwe, but the slow sale of carbon credits
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Zimbabwe: Church Worries Over Slow Pace of Climate Action
THE impacts of climate change in Zimbabwe will run deeper should authorities fail to tie-up the National Climate Policy (NCP) quick enough, a new study by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has warned.
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Zimbabwe: Mom 'Clings to Tree for Six Hours With Baby On Her Back' to Survive Floods
A Zimbabwean woman, Nyaradzo Makholiso, 38, miraculously survived cyclone-induced floods by "hanging precariously on a tree branch for six hours", with her 2-month-old baby strapped on her back, a report