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580k children in severe food poverty — Unicef

BY NYASHA KUNYISWA THE United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) says over 500 000 young children in Zimbabwe are living in severe food poverty. In a statement yesterday, the Unicef country representative in Zimbabwe, Nicholas Alipui, added the numbers were expected to increase due to the El Nino-induced drought. “Food insecurity among Zimbabwean children…

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Work-for-cash conditions set

THE government says cash transfers for the food vulnerable people in urban areas will only be paid to people who undertake public work programmes in their local communities. This comes as the 2024 Zimbabwe Livelihood Assessment Committee (ZimLAC) urban report recently indicated that at least 35 percent of the urban population would be food insecure…

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Let’s join hands in drug abuse fight – Government

BY STELLA MADZIVANYIKA THE government has called on all stakeholders to support each other in the fight to curb drug and substance abuse in the country. Speaking in Harare yesterday at a Roman Catholic Church-organised drug awareness campaign, the Sports and Recreation deputy ministry, Emily Jesaya, said the effects of drug and substance abuse remained…

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Guns flow from neighbouring countries into Zim, robberies spike

CHRISTOPHER Holland believed he had done all he could to secure his home: two vicious dogs permanently stationed in the front yard and wall-to-wall security. But as he arrived home from work one day and turned off his alarm, two men in ski masks stormed in after him. “They started shouting, ordering me to lie…

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Prioritise personal mental health, health workers told

AUTHORITIES say beneficiaries of the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) will increase because of the El Nino effect that is ravaging the country and the Sadc region. Responding to a question in the National Assembly last week after Zanu PF MP for Seke Constituency Munyaradzi Kashambe asked on what was being done to assist parents…

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Bulawayo reels under de-industrialisation as city turns 130

FOR years, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second capital, has been proclaimed as the industrial hub, not until the last two or so decades, where the city has regrettably retreated into a shadow of its former self. The city was once beautifully christened as; “Kontuthu Ziyathunqa” a Ndebele phrase for a “place that continually exudes smoke” after its…

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