News stories by Ignatius Banda, page 3

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Mar 31 (IPS) - Activity in the streets of Zimbabwe’s second city is testimony to a thriving informal sector where thousands of people eke out a living selling all sorts of wares.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Mar 22 (IPS) - Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with a controversial bill that critics say seeks to criminalise the operations of nongovernmental organisations working in the country.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Feb 14 (IPS) - When years ago warnings were sounded that future wars would be fought not over oil but water, the predictions were dismissed as alarmist.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Feb 01 (IPS) - On January 10, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) arrested three men found with fertilizer worth about 130,000 US dollars.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE , Dec 1 2021 (IPS) - Millet could be Africa’s silver bullet for combating anaemia – and apart from health benefits, it is climate-resilient.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Nov 11 (IPS) - With subsidies of global fisheries back on the World Trade Organisation’s agenda, experts are calling for African governments to upscale the protection of the sector long plagued by activities that continue to threaten the continent’s blue economy.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Nov 04 (IPS) - Thirty-six-year-old Thandiwe Mtshali* watched helplessly as her informal cross-border trading (ICBT) enterprise came to a grinding halt when the Zimbabwean authorities closed the border with South Africa as part of global efforts to stem the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Oct 19 (IPS) - Each morning, Langelihle Tshuma checks her taps to confirm the water supply before preparing for the day ahead.

Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Aug 11 (IPS) - Ndaba Dube, a Bulawayo resident, says he built himself a home on a small piece of land after the authorities kept him on the housing waiting list for more than two decades. The land he chose is in an old township established before Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Apr 20 (IPS) - Before Zimbabwe imposed lockdown measures last March as part of global efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Grace Mashingaidze* would attend workshops in Harare arranged by a nongovernmental organisation assisting trafficked women who had safely made it back home.