What is drought? Local constructions, diverse perceptions

There is a huge government and aid machinery to respond to ‘drought’ in Zimbabwe. Humanitarian relief, cash-plus transfer schemes, shock-responsive aid, anticipatory action, insurance products, climate-smart...

ZESA Increases Electricity Tariffs Effective 15 May 2022

ZESA Holdings’ power distribution arm, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has increased electricity...

RBZ tinkers with exemptions as lending ban implodes

FEARS of blocking critical funding to the country’s fragile productive sectors and the resultant negative contagion...

WFP Urges Zimbabwe, SADC to Produce More Food to Avoid Insecurity

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Zim backtracks on shutting bank lending after firms shut facilities

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has backtracked on its blanket directive to stop banks' lending activities...

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Govt debt assumption burdens overtaxed citizens

The continuous assumption by the government of secret debts accrued by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe...

RBZ Foreign Currency Auction 10 May 2022: Zimbabwe Dollar Continues To Fall

The foreign exchange weighted average rate has fallen to US$1: ZWL$173.2685 from US$1: ZWL$165.9942 which was...

ZIBAWU calls for a reversal of ban on bank lending

The Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (ZIBAWU) has called for the immediate reversal of the...

Zim businesses blast govt’s new capital controls

The business sector in Zimbabwe has criticised new capital controls announced by President Emerson Mnangagwa at...

Contested conservancies: livestock, wildlife and people in Laikipia, Kenya

To complement the recent series of blogs on conservation and development issues in the southeast Lowveld...

Zimbabwe suspends bank lending in bid to arrest currency decline

A street vendor poses as he displays bond notes, before the introduction of new currency in...

Dollar o’clock: Should Zimbabwe axe its faltering currency again?

The southern African state once adopted US dollars as legal tender when hyperinflation rendered its currency...

Zimbabwe’s grain output to drop by nearly half: government

HARARE - Zimbabwe is likely to suffer a nearly 50% decline in corn output this year...

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