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POVERTY-ZIMBABWE: Gardening Lifeline for Urban Women

POVERTY-ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Dec 2 (IPS) - Growing and selling vegetables has become a lifeline for 41-year-old Mavis Dube at a time when millions of Zimbabweans face increasing poverty and hunger after years of debilitating economic ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  2 Dec 2008

POVERTY: Water Wars Hit Rural Zimbabwe

POVERTY: PLUMTREE, Oct 16 (IPS) - When water experts warned at the turn of the millennium that soon wars will be fought not over oil anymore but over water, little did Zimbabweans know that they would be some of the first people affected ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  16 Oct 2008

ECONOMY-ZIMBABWE: ‘‘Basic Commodities Have Become Luxuries’’

ECONOMY-ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Jul 16 (IPS) - Business has never been this bad, said Nomathemba Nkomo. A few years ago, the 37-year-old businesswoman laid down projections for her business. Increasing the number of staff members was one ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  16 Jul 2008

POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Media Blackout for Female Candidates

POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Interview with Loughty Dube, Chair of the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Zimbabwe BULAWAYO, Jun 17 (IPS) - For activists campaigning to put more women into Africa's parliaments, the media has become a key ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  24 Jun 2008

TRADE: Zimbabwe, ''A Hard Sell''

TRADE: BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Apr 29 (IPS) - The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), which ended this past weekend, was once celebrated as a forum to showcase the vast investment opportunities in the then bread basket of the Southern ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  29 Apr 2008

HEALTH: Rural Zimbabwe Fertile Ground for HIV/AIDS

HEALTH: TSHOLOTSHO, Zimbabwe, Jan 31 (IPS) - They left the country in search of jobs to better their lives, but village elders in rural Tsholotsho, say young men who left home to fend for their families are losing their lives at alarming ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  31 Jan 2008

ZIMBABWE: Illegal Trade Booming -- For The Sake of Survival

ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Dec 13 (IPS) - Easily portable, consumable goods from Zimbabwe are increasingly finding their way into neighbouring countries as cross-border traders search for deals to earn much-needed foreign currency. At the railway ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  13 Dec 2007

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