Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Tjingababili Primary School in Matabeleland South’s Mangwe District has become a magnet for children from outside its catchment area after introducing a feeding scheme to alleviate the devastating impact of the El Nino-induced drought. The school’s...
Monday, May 20, 2024
Mpofu’s household is among the 2 427 that are beneficiaries of the cash transfer programme in the district being implemented by Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, UNICEF and partners with financial support from the Government of...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Zimbabwe is heading for general polls in 2023 amid an ongoing macroeconomic crisis. In the decade starting from 2001, the state-led economy started to show signs of strain. Unemployment reached 85%. Inflation, which was a...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Players in the informal economy sector are crying foul over the latest tightening of Covid-19 lockdown measures and have appealed for increased social protection from the Government. According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe recorded...
Monday, October 5, 2020
Zimbabwe and Venezuela - two countries separated by thousands of miles, different continents and very different cultures.
Yet, they both have one fatal obstacle in common: economic degradation. Failing economic policies have destroyed their basic...
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Africa, Zimbabwe, America, Venezuela
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Monday, April 13, 2020
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on government to pay US$100 to vulnerable employees as one of measures to enhance social protection during the COVID-19 lockdow.
Monday, February 17, 2020
The World Food Programme (WFP) says the government must stregthen its social security nets to compliment humanitarian aid being offered to food insecure families. This comes at a time when the country's food and economic crises are worsening with about...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
From drone-mapping in Mozambique to community radio weather programmes in Zambia, aid agencies are innovating to help millions of people in drought-ravaged southern Africa prepare for climate threats and produce enough food on a warming planet. Across...
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Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa
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Thursday, January 2, 2020
INTERVIEW: The U.N.'s World Food Program had been giving cash to 8 million people in Zimbabwe who don't have enough food to meet their basic needs. Drought, climate change and inflation have caused a crisis in which half of the country's population...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Government and its development partners intend to expand urban and rural food distribution to include food-insecure households in more districts countrywide. This comes amid warnings of poor crop performance due to the prevailing dry spell. Beneficiaries...
