Poverty is so bad in Zimbabwe that students sometimes resort to prostitution to survive, says a new report by women in the country’s Student Christian Movement. A power-sharing government of ...

Amid grinding poverty, widespread hunger, almost universal joblessness and a deadly cholera epidemic, Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe, held a $250,000 birthday bash for himself this ...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) remain a key driver of employment and economic activity in Zimbabwe, government officials say, highlighting the sector’s central role in poverty reduction and ...

HURUNGWE, Zimbabwe, April 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sharai Tunhira frowns with focus as she runs through drills with her all-female patrol team - each woman armed and ready for the many men ...

The Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) says crippling poverty is forcing thousands of children to drop out of school. In a statement, PTUZ said the recent hike in examination fees is ...

Poverty is stalking workers at Hwange Colliery Company (HCCL) who have gone for eight months without salaries compelling many to resort to fishing, cross-border trading and other means to make ends ...

LET’S dismantle the tales. The Zimbabwean government’s constant invocation of the dream of becoming an “upper-middle-income economy” by 2030 has been presented as a promise of prosperity, dignity, and ...

THE inflation scourge gripping Zimbabwe has fuelled poverty and costs of production, derailing both the economic recovery plan and the current National Budget that was premised on a lower rate of ...

Zimbabwe’s worsening social, political, and economic landscape means trouble for the Southern Africa subregion, according to an expert in Africa policy studies. Michelle Gavin, a Ralph Bunche Senior ...

The Associated Press recently reported on how children in Zimbabwe hunt mice and sell them as "tasty snacks" on the roadside. The children in the rural village of Chidza in central Zimbabwe head into ...

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