climate change

Godfrey Mtimba GUTU — Villagers and farmers in Gutu district are grappling with heavy cattle losses due to January Disease (theileriosis), amid a worsening shortage of dipping chemicals and shifting climate conditions that are fuelling the…

Christopher Mahove Harare—Climate experts have called for investment in climate-resilient housing, improved settlement planning in flood-prone zones, strengthened early warning systems and anticipatory action, following the Mozambique…

Godfrey Mtimba Mwenezi --Villagers in Mwenezi who have long relied on harvesting and selling caterpillars (madora) for income are lamenting a sharp decline in production this rainy season, which they attribute largely to the effects of…

Godfrey Mtimba Masvingo—Local human rights organisations have raised alarm over a growing exodus of young people, some of them of school-going age, from Mwenezi and Chiredzi districts to neighbouring South Africa, as climate change–induced…

Drought has brought trucks of shame to Lupane Nokuthaba Dlamini Lupane—In rural Lubimbi and Gwayi, Lupane district, the drought has done more than dry up rivers; it is straining communities. Year after year, the rains fail, fields…

Nokuthaba Dlamini Lupane—At dawn in Lubimbi and Gwayi in Matabeleland North’s Lupane district, the sound of donkey hooves on dusty roads and creaking scotch carts is all too familiar. Families hitch the scotch carts and begin the long…

This compelling collection brings together 14 rigorously fact-checked investigative stories from seven provinces across Zimbabwe.  Supported by the Information for Development Trust (IDT), the reports were produced by a vibrant group…

Pamenus Tuso Bulawayo—The Bulawayo City Council has allocated 30 percent of its climate finance to youth- and women-led climate change mitigation projects. Speaking at the launch of the city’s sustainability monograph on Monday, the…

Lulu Brenda Harris Lwazi Ndebele says she decided to join the great trek to South Africa after her village located along Zimbabwe’s border with Botswana experienced two years of successive droughts and putting food on the…

Pamenus Tuso Chimanimani—For generations, the baobab tree has been a vital lifeline for local communities in some parts of arid Chimanimani district in Manicaland province. Villagers in Nyanyadzi and Gudyanga areas off the…