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African cities aren’t doing enough to adapt to climate change: lessons from Durban and Harare

When record-breaking rains swept through the coastal city of Durban in South Africa in April 2022, the resulting floods destroyed roads, bridges and homes. Durban’s low-lying, poor neighbourhoods were hardest hit, with residents losing their homes and their lives.

The Conversation

Desperate Zimbabweans get in debt to pay for lifesaving blood transfusions

Blood may be free in public hospitals, but low supplies leave Zimbabweans borrowing money to pay for private stocks.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe's scrap metal hunters fight climate change a piece at a time

In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, thousands of informal workers collect scrap metal from illegal dumpsites to survive

The Independent UK

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Harare goes green: capital city leads Zimbabwe’s climate fight with bold urban solutions

Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, is fast becoming a key player in the battle against climate change, developing innovative approaches to tackle waste management, restore degraded ecosystems, and promote sustainable urban planning. Like many other cities across the globe, Harare faces significant environmental challenges - yet it is also a…

Radio France Internationale

White and Black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe’s land grabs

How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left Black Zimbabweans in poverty.

Al Jazeera

Amid Zimbabwe’s political crisis, hope and frustration brew

As president Mnangagwa faces pressure to resign, people say they are angry but fear protesting amid calls for change.

Al Jazeera

Why is Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa facing pressure to resign?

An internal split in the ruling ZANU-PF party is driving fears of a possible coup attempt.

Al Jazeera

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‘Cat and mouse game’: Zimbabwe gov’t workers moonlight as street vendors

With high inflation and a struggling economy, civil servants say they need secret side hustles to make ends meet.

Al Jazeera

Informal Night Markets Thrive Amid Zimbabwe's Currency Volatility

Discover how informal night markets in Harare thrive amidst currency fluctuations, offering affordable goods and attracting consumers seeking alternatives ...

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Zimbabwe’s street children: how to get them home and back in school

Zimbabwe’s government undertook a survey in 2023 to ascertain how many children were living on the streets of the country’s second biggest city, Bulawayo. The most recent numbers were from a similar 2015 survey, the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Welfare told reporters – and, in the intervening eight…

The Conversation

How secondhand clothes took Zimbabwe by storm – and hammered retail

The country’s clothes manufacturers are taking a beating from imported ‘preloved’ clothes and a struggling economy.

Al Jazeera

WhatsApp novelists use messaging app to write and sell books in Zimbabwe

Emerging authors and eager readers are finding more accessible and affordable ways to get their literary fix.

Al Jazeera

‘SADC should speak out’: Zimbabwe activists face crackdown ahead of summit

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.

Al Jazeera

Sangomas with ring lights: Zimbabwe’s traditional healers take to TikTok

As a new generation of healers shares African spiritual practices on social media, critics say the two cannot mix.

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The hidden dangers of Zimbabwe’s informal savings clubs

Community savings schemes provide support for many Zimbabweans but also put vulnerable people at risk of being swindled.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe’s illegal forex dealers use WhatsApp to find clients, evade police

Zimbabwe clamps down on black market trading it blames for devaluing its new ZiG local currency.

Al Jazeera

‘Triple spending’: Zimbabweans bear cost of changing to new ZiG currency

Businesses, transport, government services reject old notes despite the unavailability of new bills until end of month.

Al Jazeera

What’s behind the latest US sanctions on Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa?

Have sanctions ever achieved much in Zimbabwe, and how do they affect the country’s economy?

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Rural Clinic Offers Respite For Priced Out Zimbabwean Patients

Outside a hospital in rural Zimbabwe, scores of people wait patiently under trees or inside small tents for news of their loved ones.

Al Jazeera

‘They could have done more’: Zimbabweans slam gov’t anti-cholera campaign

Many Zimbabweans say the government is yet to tackle the cause of recurrent bouts of cholera in the nation.

Al Jazeera

‘Structureless party’: Has Chamisa led Zimbabwe’s main opposition astray?

Many accuse the ruling party of infiltrating opposition but say Chamisa’s cult of personality politics made it possible.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe nurses seek better conditions abroad but fear for patients at home

Health workers outside the country say they still check on their patients in Zimbabwe as its health sector deteriorates.

AAP

Aussie pilot Naqvi flying high in cricket's 300 club

Antum Naqvi, a Belgian-born Australian club cricketer, is eyeing a Test place with Zimbabwe after a record-breaking, first-class triple hundred in Harare.

Al Jazeera

In Zimbabwe, a small publisher that helped launch big voices shuts down

In 25 years, the couple-run Harare-based Weaver Press published hundreds of Zimbabwean fiction and nonfiction titles.

Al Jazeera

‘Choiceless elections’: Zimbabweans cry foul before bizarre by-elections

Opposition figures and analysts say Zimbabwe’s political arena is being shaped to enforce a one-party state.

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