August 04, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families #AfricaClimateHope
When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in Mashava in Masvingo, about 294 kilometres from the capital Harare, in the early 2000s, the land was barren, with no hope… Read more »
July 31, 2023
Southern Africa: Civil Society Space in Southern Africa Shrinking As Government Repression Rises
Freedom of expression is under threat as governments in Southern Africa have enacted laws restricting civil society organizations, says global rights advocacy organisation,… Read more »
July 21, 2023
Eswatini: Election With No Democracy On the Horizon
Eswatini heads to the polls soon, with elections scheduled for September. But there's nothing remotely democratic in prospect. The country remains ruled by King Mswati III,… Read more »
July 13, 2023
Zimbabwe: Human Rights Concerns Ahead of Zimbabwe Polls
Zimbabwe holds general elections next month amid growing human rights and press freedom concerns in what analysts say could mar conditions for undisputed poll results. Read more »
July 12, 2023
Zimbabwe: Private and Public Spheres - Sweden and Mugabe
The war in Ukraine continues unabated; young men are sacrificed on battlefields, towns laid waste by aerial attacks, the threat of nuclear disasters is looming. People within an… Read more »
July 05, 2023
Zimbabwe: Greener Pastures Not So Green for Zimbabweans in the Diaspora
They have high-paying jobs, a high standard of living, and almost everything they need, but for Zimbabweans abroad, all that glitters is not gold. Read more »
June 30, 2023
Malawi: Land Beneficiaries Lament Worsening Poverty in Resettled Areas
Located between two heavily-deforested mountains, Nakadanga Trust in Machinga District in southern Malawi looks lifeless. Read more »
June 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Women's Savings Clubs Struggle Under Weight of Unstable Currency
For years, self-employed and unemployed women in Zimbabwe formed neighbourhood "clubs" where they pooled money together for everything from buying bulk groceries to be shared at… Read more »
June 19, 2023
South Africa: Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassador's Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy
In 1974, Yohei Sasakawa accompanied his father to a leprosy hospital he had funded. He saw leprosy patients inside the hospital still and expressionless. The smell of leprosy… Read more »
June 12, 2023
Malawi: Cyclone Freddy Has Put Women & Girls in Malawi At Greater Risk of Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
"Cyclone Freddy was a terrible experience, and now many women who lost their homes and their livelihoods are at increased risk of sexual exploitation and abuse," warns Caleb… Read more »
May 11, 2023
South Africa: Finding Ways to Feed South Africa's Vast Hungry Population
In the deep rural village of Jekezi in South Africa's Eastern Cape, most young and able-bodied people have fled the area, leaving behind people with disabilities, the elderly, and… Read more »
May 10, 2023
Zimbabwe: Amid Power Cuts in Zimbabwe, Food Preservation Made Easy By Elderly Women
Amid silent refrigerators spawned by crippling electricity cuts, township grannies are relying on their smarts and traditional preservation: roasting and smoking meat over fires as… Read more »
May 02, 2023
South Africa: Safeguarding the Future of Independent Media and Our Democracies
There's a now familiar groan every time the lights go out in South Africa. Due to a critical shortage of electricity, the national power utility institutes a daily regimen of… Read more »
April 14, 2023
Africa: Vulnerable Countries Need Action On Loss and Damage Today and Not At COPs to Come #AfricaClimateHope
In March 2023, more than 600 people died in Malawi after Tropical Cyclone Freddy dumped heavy rain, flooding the southern part of the country, displacing over half a million… Read more »
April 11, 2023
Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Golf Is Giving Cyclone Idai Survivors Hope
Trust Makanidzani's golf practice session with his friends is disrupted by a howling wind and a heavy pelting of water that thundered against rooftops at Chimanimani Golf Course in… Read more »
March 30, 2023
Malawi: Cyclone Freddy Devastates Communities, Farmers, Heightens Food Insecurity
In Sonjeka village in Mulanje district, which lies on the border with Mozambique in southern Malawi, destroyed crop fields stretch almost interminably after floods ripped through… Read more »
March 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Press Freedom On Trial in Zimbabwe Ahead of Elections
With only a few months to go before national elections in Zimbabwe, press freedom advocates are raising concerns about stringent reporting conditions set by the government. Read more »
March 24, 2023
South Africa: Artisanal Miners Face Onerous Obstacles to Become Legal
Greed, poverty, irresponsible legal mining giants which exploited and then abandoned South Africa's mines, together with the government's failure to enforce regulations on the… Read more »
March 17, 2023
Malawi: Belief in Witchcraft Costing Lives of Elderly Women in Malawi
In December last year, a video clip went viral of two elderly women surrounded by a charged-up crowd and engulfed in a cloud of dust as they filled up a grave in a village in the… Read more »
March 15, 2023
Zimbabwe: 'Stone-Age' Donkey-Drawn Carts Ply Zimbabwe's Abandoned Remote Routes
From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway in Zimbabwe at a spot popularly known as Turn-P, the road passing through Neshuro Township has been degraded, disused, and derelict for over… Read more »
March 01, 2023
South Africa: Rising Food Prices, Ongoing Energy Crisis Place South Africa At Risk
South Africa's almost record level food price inflation, load shedding, rising energy costs, and further fuel and interest rate hike forecast have eroded workers' disposable… Read more »
February 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Forests Disappearing in Energy Poor Zimbabwean Cities
In New Ashdon Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once thriving forest, makeshift fireplaces have become common sights… Read more »
February 23, 2023
Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Economic Crisis Pushes Underaged Girls to Sex Work
After other adolescent girls her age have gone to bed at around 10 pm, Kudzai commutes to a shopping centre near her home in Penhalonga, a mining area 25 kilometres outside the… Read more »
February 10, 2023
Eswatini: eSwatini - Democracy a Matter of Life and Death
Thulani Maseko knew speaking out in Eswatini was a risky business. An activist and well-known human rights lawyer, he'd previously spent 14 months in jail for criticising the… Read more »
February 09, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Political Violence Casts Spotlight On Free and Fair Polls
With political violence escalating in Zimbabwe, national elections slated for later this year face questions about whether the polls will meet free and fair international… Read more »