ZIMBABWE: Pregnancy need not put an end to education
HARARE, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) - Falling pregnant used to mean the end of school – and of much more - for girls in Zimbabwe, so a new regulation replacing immediate expulsion with maternity leave has been welcomed.
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ZIMBABWE: Diamond sale a false economic dawn
HARARE, 23 August 2010 (IRIN) - An auction of Zimbabwean diamonds has created an air of expectation that the country’s economic plight will be eased or even improved, but the stones realized as little as a fifth of their value, and most of the proceeds are expected to benefit controversial mining companies.
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ZIMBABWE: Diaspora can also discuss new constitution
HARARE, 17 August 2010 (IRIN) - The parliamentary committee in charge of reviewing Zimbabwe's constitution is actively inviting feedback and recommendations from the millions of Zimbabweans living abroad.
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ZIMBABWE: Children doing time with their mothers
HARARE, 11 August 2010 (IRIN) - Sarah Moyo, 24 - not her real name - clasps her stunted one-year-old child to her chest as she talks to her visiting husband through a chain-link fence at the Central Remand Prison, on the eastern fringe of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.
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ZIMBABWE: More food production, but not enough
JOHANNESBURG, 10 August 2010 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's production of maize, its staple food, has improved "significantly", but the country is still food insecure and about 1.68 million people will require assistance in the first quarter of 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said in a national crop and food security situation report released on 9 August.
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ZIMBABWE: Asking for more humanitarian money
HARARE, 4 August 2010 (IRIN) - "Economic and political challenges" combined with underfunded recovery and development are keeping Zimbabwe in a seemingly perpetual state of humanitarian need, aid agencies said to justify an upward revision of US$100 million in projected funding requirements.
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Analysis: Unconditional money
JOHANNESBURG, 2 August 2010 (IRIN) - A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi's poor southern region has caused ripples across the debate on cash transfers in academic and aid communities.
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ZIMBABWE: Unlicensed and outdoors or no school at all
EPWORTH, 23 July 2010 (IRIN) - Simbarashe Choga, 65, a retired teacher, is the local butcher in Epworth, some 20km northeast of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare; he is also the principal of the primary school he runs out of his shop.
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How To: Protect your livelihood from wild animals
JOHANNESBURG, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) - People and wildlife have never been in greater competition for limited resources as human populations invade shrinking natural habitats in a fight for living space, food and water. In this vignette of a planet-wide battle, IRIN looks at how to keep elephants away from your crops and raiding monkeys out of your food stores.
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Analysis: NGOs' to-do list for incoming UN relief coordinator
DAKAR, 20 July 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN consulted the heads of some of the largest NGO networks on what they thought should be the top priorities of the incoming UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, who is expected to take up her role within two or three months.
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