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 in Zimbabwe. The report consolidates information on gender gaps and drivers of inequality in human endowments, economic opportunities, ownership and control …
First, 11 elephants were killed in Hwange National Park and 3 in Matusadona National Park. On October 26, the parks authority announced that another 22 had been poisoned and killed in Hwange. A week later, it was reported that cyanide had taken the lives of 26 in the park. And …
Zimbabwe will conduct its first ever HIV vaccine trial as part of efforts to curb the spread of HIV in February next year, officials have said. The HIV trial comes at a time when the global community is doubling efforts to curb the epidemic which had claimed the lives of …
Three journalists from a state-owned paper in Zimbabwe have been arrested and will be charged with publishing falsehoods over a report about the poisoning of elephants, the police say. A Sunday Mail article alleged that a syndicate, including a top police officer, was behind the recent use of cyanide to …
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an anti-poaching bill Monday night by voice vote, according to a news release. The Global Anti-Poaching Act is co-sponsored by 43 Republicans and 64 Democrats. The Global Anti-Poaching Act aims to make wildlife trafficking cases easier to prosecute as well as authorize tougher penalties …
Suspected poachers have used cyanide to kill 23 elephants in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park, raising the death toll there and in the northern part of the country to 60 since late September, officials said on Thursday. Hwange national park in western Zimbabwe currently hosts 53,000 elephants, twice the park's carrying …
At least two more elephants are now known to have been shot dead by poachers in Hwange in northern Zimbabwe, where 22 poisoned elephant carcasses were discovered on Monday. The elephants appear to have been shot with rifles last week, according to the privately-owned Newsday on Tuesday. One man has …
Zimbabwean rangers have found the bodies of 22 more elephants that were poisoned with cyanide in the country’s Hwange national park. The grim discovery brings to 62 the number of elephants poisoned by poachers in this southern Africa country in October. Rangers found the carcasses of the elephants in Hwange …
AT the age of 12, Tendai Munhamo, a grade 7 pupil at a primary school in Chiwundura, on the outskirts of Gweru, has the height of an eight year old girl. It is not only her height that makes her body look sluggish. Her skin looks dry and flaky, eyes …
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story HUMANS tend to ascribe titles to certain things or phenomena that are indicative of their own intellectual and physical limitations to things that dwarf the understanding of this know-it-all, all conquering species. Objects observed in the sky, sometimes flying at supersonic speeds, objects that have dumbfounded …
The rights and technical capacities of indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers are the focus of the three-year global program, ‘Putting lessons into practice: Scaling up People’s Biodiversity Management for Food Security’. The program aims to support farmers to influence policies and institutions on the sustainable use of plant genetic resources …
The European Union (EU) on Monday gave Zimbabwe 89 million Euros (100 million U.S. dollars) to support the southern African country's health, agriculture and institutional governance programs. The grant is part of the 234 million Euros (270 million U.S. dollars) five-year funding support committed to Zimbabwe by the EU under …
At least eight people died from more than 10,000 diarrhoea cases recorded in Zimbabwe during the past week, the Ministry of Health revealed Sunday.The ministry said in a report that 10,619 cases of diarrhoea and typhoid were recorded around the country during the past week. Manicaland and Mashonaland West (1,515) …
The professional hunter who helped an American dentist kill Zimbabwe’s popular lion Cecil has appeared in court on new charges of planning to smuggle sable antelope out of the country. Theo Bronkhorst, 52, was initially arrested on Monday last week in Zimbabwe’s second largest city of Bulawayo, after he was …
Zimbabwean police on Tuesday arrested a local hunter who was linked to the killing of Cecil the lion in July on new charges of transporting 29 sable antelopes without a permit and as accomplice to smuggling the animals. Theo Bronkhorst already faces trial on Sept. 28 on charges of breaching …
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care says 221 mothers have died while giving birth so far this year. According to the ministry's weekly diseases surveillance report, of the figure, 10 died in the last week of August. The deaths were reported in Gweru district in Midlands (2), Gwanda district …
Zimbabwe has finalised mandatory proposals on how it plans to reduce greenhouse gases emissions after 2020, but it will not tie itself down to implementing policies that disrupt economic development. The plan centres on adaptation and contains components on vulnerability and mitigation, to be achieved by ramping up investments in …
Masvingo City Council has completed a $500 000 dedicated power line project to provide uninterrupted electricity supply at its sewer pump stations and treatment plant to reduce rampant pollution in Lake Mutirikwi. The country's oldest town draws its water from Late Mutirikwi where pollution has reached unprecedented levels owing to …
Zimbabwe has banned the movement of cattle in the southern part of the country near the South African border after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, the deputy minister of agriculture said on Monday. Zimbabwean farmers and communities living near wildlife parks are at risk of foot and mouth, …
Zimbabwe: Nyarota Attempts to Evade Paying Rent, Judge Orders Him to Fork Out U.S $40k Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has implored African governments to levy multi-lateral companies for contributing to climate change and channel the money into a common fund to address the effects. Speaking during the …
THE final draft of the national Climate Change Policy, which aims to provide the framework for the introduction of climate protection measures, is expected to be ready by the end of this month. The draft policy was compiled following consultations with stakeholders in the climate sector and consultant tasked with …
