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 »
January 23, 2023
South Africa: We Want to Be Legal - We're Not 'Zama Zama' Criminals, Say Artisanal Miners
Mining towns across South Africa have become hostage to a booming but bloody illegal mining economy. Read more »
January 10, 2023
Zimbabwe: Greening the City Gets Community Treatment in Zimbabwe
It's a typical story in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. With the failure to provide services such as refuse collection by the local municipality, township residents dump… Read more »
January 09, 2023
Malawi: Malawi Suffers Worst Cholera Outbreak in Decades
On March 3, 2022, Malawi declared a cholera outbreak after a district hospital in the southern region reported a case. This was the first case in the 2021 to 2022 cholera season. Read more »
November 25, 2022
Zimbabwe: Cattle Turn Into New Currency Amid Inflation in Zimbabwe
In 2007 as inflation walloped the Zimbabwean currency, rendering it valueless, then 54-year-old Langton Musaigwa of Mataruse village west of Zimbabwe in Mberengwa district switched… Read more »
October 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Artisanal Miners Ruin Diminishing Forests
With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands… Read more »
October 17, 2022
Zimbabwe: Poverty Haunts Resettled Farmers
Edious Murewa has for years boasted of owning a 10-hectare piece of land, but now the 52-year-old is full of regrets. He faces poverty years after he invaded part of a farm once… Read more »
September 28, 2022
Zimbabwe: Abuse of Elderly On the Rise
At his house in Mabvuku, a high-density suburb in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, 86-year-old Tinago Murape claims his grandchildren starve him. Read more »
September 08, 2022
Zambia: Zambian Parliamentarians Tackle Population Issues to Improve Quality of Life for Citizens
Parliamentarians play a decisive role in addressing population issues, as was demonstrated when the majority voted against a private member motion to end the teaching of… Read more »
September 07, 2022
Zimbabwe: Sand Poachers Fueling Environmental Harm
In Chitungwiza, right next to the highway, 36-year-old Nesbit Gavanga and his five colleagues use shovels as they load trucks with sand. Read more »
September 05, 2022
Malawi: Farmers Reap More From Sunflowers, Chillies
Having harvested and graded their sunflower crop instead of taking it to market, every member of Zikometso Productive and Innovation Centre (IPC) brings their produce to the… Read more »
August 26, 2022
Zimbabwe: Auxillia Mnangagwa Is Following in Grace 'Gucci' Mugabe's Path - Critics
On Friday, November 24, 2017, Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn as interim leader during a colourful ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in the capital Harare, after the ouster of… Read more »
August 12, 2022
Malawi: ECW Interviews Three Inspiring #youth4eie Advocates On International Youth Day
On this International Youth Day, ECW interviewed three inspiring #Youth4EiE Advocates - Nataly Rivas, Angela Abizera, and Jean-Paul Saif. Nataly, Angela, and Jean-Paul are three… Read more »
August 19, 2022
Zimbabwe: Starvation Pounds Inflation-Hit Urban Zimbabweans
With inflation at 256.9 percent, 49-year-old Dambudzo Chauruka can no longer afford to buy bread despite working as a civil servant in Zimbabwe. Read more »
August 10, 2022
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Makes First Journalist Arrests Under Cybersecurity Law
Zimbabwe's press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting "false data messages." Read more »
August 04, 2022
Zimbabwe: Nonagenarian Opposition Backer Contends for Change in Zimbabwe
Idah Hanyani, popularly known as Gogo Chihera, has backed the opposition since Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980. Read more »
August 01, 2022
Malawi: Climate Change Is Putting Women & Girls At Greater Risk of Sexual Violence #AfricaClimateCrisis
It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And such is the case with women and girls in Malawi - one of the world's… Read more »
July 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Unsung Living HIV/Aids Hero Spreads Message of Hope
In 2001, when Reki Jimu was 30 years old, his wife died aged 27. Read more »
July 22, 2022
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Turns to Boreholes Amid Groundwater Level Concerns #AfricaClimateCrisis
Faced with cyclical droughts and low water levels in supply dams, Zimbabwe is turning to boreholes for relief, raising concerns about already precarious groundwater levels across… Read more »
July 18, 2022
South Africa: Xenophobia - Too Black... or Just Too Poor?
South Africa, the home land of the late giant fighter against Apartheid, racism and discrimination - Nelson Mandela "Mandiba", is already 'on the precipice of explosive xenophobic… Read more »
July 07, 2022
South Africa: Myths Fuel Xenophobic Sentiment
Around the world, from Syria to Libya, from Bangladesh to Ukraine, millions have become refugees in foreign lands due to war, famine, or political and economic instability in their… Read more »
June 27, 2022
South Africa: 'When It Comes to Gender Equality, Our Best Is Not Good Enough' - Says Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted lives all over the world. According to this report, gender is emerging as a significant factor in the social, economic and health effects of… Read more »
June 08, 2022
Africa: African Solutions to African Problems - Reframing Science Innovation
Africa is plagued by many epidemics -- from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to malaria and wild polio -- but the continent has also worked for decades to fight these threats. The key to… Read more »
June 06, 2022
Africa: The UN Security Council Is in Desperate Need of Comprehensive Reforms
Any fair analysis of the United Nations strongly suggests that the UN of today is not the same UN that was established in 1945. The United Nations Security Council in particular,… Read more »
May 31, 2022
Zimbabwe: Xenophobia-Hit Zimbabweans Saving Country's Dead Economy
Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives. Read more »