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March 21, 2024

Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World in the Context of Zimbabwe?

This year’s UNDP Global Human Development Report (HDR) marks a dramatic shift away from the cautious optimism espoused in the HDR just four years ago: despite reaching a new high, the Global Human Development Index now evolves meaningfully below the 2019 trend – threatening to make global development losses permanent.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/03/reimagining-cooperation-polarized-world-context-zimbabwe/
March 15, 2024

Beekeeping Offers Opportunity to Zimbabwean Farming Communities

Honeybees quickly react with a sharp and loud buzz sound as beekeeper Tanyaradzwa Kanangira opens one of the wooden horizontal Kenyan top bar hives near a stream in a thick forest in Chimanimani, 412 kilometres from Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. The 26-year-old puffs some smoke, a safety measure, as he holds and inspects a honeycomb built from hexagons by the honey bees.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/03/beekeeping-offers-opportunity-zimbabwean-farming-communities/
January 24, 2024

Zimbabweans Gambling for a Living Amid Escalating Hardships

Twenty years after completing high school in Zimbabwe, 38-year-old Tinago Mukono still has not found employment, and in order to survive, he has switched to betting, turning it into a form of employment. Every day throughout the week, Mukono leaves his home to join many others like him in betting clubs strewn across Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, with the hope of making it.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/01/zimbabweans-gambling-for-a-living-amid-escalating-hardships/
January 4, 2024

Homeless Families Now a Growing Issue in Zimbabwe

It is do or die on the streets of Zimbabwe as homeless families battle for survival solely depending on begging. Such is the life of 69-year-old Gladys Mugabe, who lives with her disabled son in Harare Gardens, a well-known recreational park in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Over the decades, Zimbabwe’s economy has underperformed. It started in 2000 with the departure of white commercial farmers, and the country has experienced subsequent periods of hyperinflation, which the International Monetary Fund estimated reached 172% in July last year.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/01/homeless-families-now-a-growing-eyesore-in-zimbabwe/
November 28, 2023

Young Musician’s Death Exposes Zimbabwe’s Collapsing Health System

A rising Afropop musician, Garikai Mapanzure, popularly known by his stage name Garry, has become the latest high-profile victim of Zimbabwe’s deteriorating health facilities. Garry, who was 25, died in mid-October after sustaining grave injuries in a horrific accident near his home in Masvingo, 295 kilometres from Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/11/young-musicians-death-exposes-zimbabwes-collapsing-health-system/
November 6, 2023

Zimbabwe’s Election Widens Gender Gap in Politics

Zimbabwe’s recent election has exposed weak gender policies both at the political party and governmental levels as women were sidelined despite the fact that they make up more than half of the 6.5 million electorate.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/11/zimbabwes-election-widens-gender-gap-politics/
October 20, 2023

Seniors Thriving Through Plastic Waste in Zimbabwe

They do not have a pension nor financial support from families or relatives, but they have themselves. Now they have become collectors of plastic waste, which they turn into products as they battle for survival - earning money from the growing plastic pollution in Zimbabwe.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/10/seniors-thriving-through-plastic-waste-in-zimbabwe/
September 27, 2023

Zimbabwe’s Food Security Ambitions in El Niño’s Crosshairs

Zimbabwe is riding a wave of food security assurances after what officials said was last year’s bumper grain harvest, but recent El Niño forecasts could test the country’s agriculture production ambitions.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/09/zimbabwes-food-security-ambitions-in-el-ninos-crosshairs/
August 10, 2023

Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country's natural resources, with the fisheries taking some of the most felt battering.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/08/disappearing-fish-spell-hard-times-for-women-in-zimbabwe/
August 4, 2023

Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families

When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in Mashava in Masvingo, about 294 kilometres from the capital Harare, in the early 2000s, the land was barren, with no hope that the soils could be suitable for farming.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/08/zimbabwean-farmers-turn-agroecology-feed-families/
July 13, 2023

Human Rights Concerns Ahead of Zimbabwe Polls

Zimbabwe holds general elections next month amid growing human rights and press freedom concerns in what analysts say could mar conditions for undisputed poll results.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/07/human-rights-concerns-ahead-zimbabwe-polls/
July 5, 2023

Greener Pastures Not So Green for Zimbabweans in the Diaspora

They have high-paying jobs, a high standard of living, and almost everything they need, but for Zimbabweans abroad, all that glitters is not gold. Twenty-eight-year-old Gift Gonye, based in Germany, is one such Zimbabwean, and he is apparently not satisfied with his life abroad.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/07/greener-pastures-not-green-diaspora-zimbabweans/
June 28, 2023

Women’s Savings in Zimbabwe Struggle Under Weight of Unstable Currency

For years, self-employed and unemployed women in Zimbabwe formed neighbourhood "clubs" where they pooled money together for everything from buying bulk groceries to be shared at the end of the year to meeting funeral expenses.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/06/womens-savings-in-zimbabwe-struggle-under-weight-of-unstable-currency/
May 10, 2023

Amid Power Cuts in Zimbabwe, Food Preservation Made Easy by Grannies

Amid silent refrigerators spawned by crippling electricity cuts, township grannies are relying on their smarts and traditional preservation: roasting and smoking meat over fires as they attempt not to throw away food.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/05/amid-power-cuts-in-zimbabwe-food-preservation-made-easy-by-grannies/
April 11, 2023

In Zimbabwe, Golf Is Giving Cyclone Idai Survivors Hope

Trust Makanidzani’s golf practice session with his friends is disrupted by a howling wind and a heavy pelting of water that thundered against rooftops at Chimanimani Golf Course in the eastern part of Zimbabwe.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/04/in-zimbabwe-golf-is-giving-cyclone-idai-survivors-hope/
March 28, 2023

Press Freedom on Trial in Zimbabwe Ahead of Elections

With only a few months to go before national elections in Zimbabwe, press freedom advocates are raising concerns about stringent reporting conditions set by the government.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/03/press-freedom-trial-zimbabwe-ahead-elections/
March 15, 2023

‘Stone-Age’ Donkey-Drawn Carts Ply Zimbabwe’s Abandoned Remote Routes

From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway in Zimbabwe at a spot popularly known as Turn-P, the road passing through Neshuro Township has been degraded, disused, and derelict for over two decades, with buses avoiding the route. Now donkey-drawn carts that operate alongside jalopy vehicles have become the new alternative for remote travellers around Mwenezi villages.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/03/donkey-drawn-carts-ply-zimbabwes-abandoned-remote-routes/
February 28, 2023

Forests Disappearing in Energy Poor Zimbabwean Cities

In New Ashdon Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once thriving forest, makeshift fireplaces have become common sights as residents solely depend on firewood for energy.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/02/forests-disappearing-in-energy-poor-zimbabwean-cities/
February 23, 2023

In Zimbabwe, Economic Crisis Pushes Underaged Girls to Sex Work

After other adolescent girls her age have gone to bed at around 10 pm, Kudzai commutes to a shopping centre near her home in Penhalonga, a mining area 25 kilometres outside the third largest Zimbabwean city of Mutare, to look for men to solicit sex.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/02/zimbabwe-artisanal-gold-mining-pushing-underage-girls-sex-work/
February 9, 2023

Zimbabwe Political Violence Casts Spotlight on Free and Fair Polls

With political violence escalating in Zimbabwe, national elections slated for later this year face questions about whether the polls will meet free and fair international benchmarks.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/02/zimbabwe-political-violence-casts-spotlight-free-fair-polls/
January 10, 2023

Greening the City Gets Community Treatment in Zimbabwe

It's a typical story in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. With the failure to provide services such as refuse collection by the local municipality, township residents dump garbage wherever they fancy, and with time, dumpsites become "official."
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/01/greening-city-gets-community-treatment-zimbabwe/
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