Infrastructure, such as power lines and poles, is of no use if households can’t afford electricity and aren’t connected to the grid.
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Universal energy access can only be achieved if people have the capabilities to use the energy to transform their lives.
Militarised conservation has had unfortunate consequences.
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Forest rangers were subjected to occupational violence by their employers. This in turn can provoke a violent reaction to illegal activities, resulting in violent policing tendencies.
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A story map shows how Harare's young people coped with lockdown in Zimbabwe.
The legal working age in Zimbabwe is 16 but children as young as 10 years are selling goods on the streets.
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The fact that there’s a growing number of child vendors means government interventions for vulnerable children aren’t reaching everyone in need.
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Rural communities are dynamic and complex. Imposing innovations that don’t speak to the needs of these communities will inhibit rural development.
Demonstrators in Zimbabwe chant slogans and wave flags during a rally to denounce EU and US sanctions against the country on October 25, 2019.
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Countries or international organizations regularly enact sanctions against individual states. But how can the effectiveness of these measures be evaluated?
The most effective means of controlling locusts is to prevent the swarms from forming.
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Locust outbreaks are driven by unusual climatic conditions.
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A fully cashless society has often been presented as natural or inevitable. The experiences of Sweden and Zimbabwe highlight some pitfalls.
Zimbabwe Defense Force soldiers during protests against President Robert Mugabe in 2017.
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A forensic archaeologist and former Zimbabwe police officer uses his investigative skills to find the missing and the dead in his homeland.
A group in the secret alleyway after a distribution of reusable masks, hand sanitiser and mealie meal.
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The story map reveals that like any part of society, street youth are both subject to and willing to conform to rules and conventions, in this case for their own and others’ safety.
Zimbabwe’s amended education act seeks to protect, respect and fulfil the right to education for all children.
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Zimbabwe’s Education Amendment Act of 2020 is a step in the right direction, but more still needs to be done.
A younger Dennis Brutus, president of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in Montreal, Canada in 1976.
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That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
A scenic view of the Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
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Study finds that Victoria Falls, a nature-based tourism resort town, is a significant contributor to carbon emissions throughout the tourism value chain in the area.
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There is not much information on artefacts used by Stone Age humans to make sound and music – but the first comprehensive survey is a good start.
Tsitsi Dangarembga.
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Her new book “This Mournable Body” was announced as a Booker Prize contender just days before her arrest for protesting against a government clampdown.
The best interests of the child require detention to be used as a last resort.
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Given their ability to accept correction, children have a better claim to rehabilitation, reorientation and reintegration.
Central bank (in the background) can no longer perform its function of being the lender of last resort.
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Zimbabwe wants to issue a sovereign bond to raise $3.5 billion it has agreed to pay as compensation to white farmers, but the economic and political conditions aren’t conducive to such an issuance.
A scene from a play about the Gukurahundi genocide, 1983 The Dark Years, performed in Harare in 2018.
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Artists are filling the state’s silence by revisiting history so that it can be discussed.
Artist Kudakwashe Chigodo poses for a portrait with his smartphone in Harare.
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Apps like WhatsApp have connected more voices to participate in live talk radio - but this comes with new challenges.
Grace Mugabe at the funeral of former president Robert Mugabe.
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Sexist slandering has been used not just to describe Grace Mugabe, but to denigrate any women who aspire to political positions.