News stories by Jeffrey Moyo, page 6

HARARE, Dic 18 (IPS) - Despite a mandate to eradicate HIV/AIDS under the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Zimbabwe has done little or nothing to reduce the rate of infection among vulnerable gays and lesbians, say activists here.

HARARE, Dic 09 (IPS) - As unemployment deepens across this Southern African nation and as the country battles to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ahead of the December 2015 deadline, thousands of urban Zimbabweans here are facing starvation.

HARARE, Nov 26 (IPS) - With the ruling Zimbabwe Africa National Union Patriotic Front party in Zimbabwe seized with internal conflicts, attention to key development areas here have shifted despite the imminent end of December 2015 deadline for global attainment of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

HARARE, Aug 08 (IPS) - Mavis Gotora from Mabvuku high-density suburb, in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, walks up and down, as she persuades one passer-by after another to board the private taxi cab she drives.

HARARE, Aug 04 (IPS) - Millicent Gananda, 34, and her two children enjoy their food at a roadside restaurant in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, before they dash into the supermarket next door.

HARARE, Jul 03 (IPS) - For many young Zimbabweans like 19-year-old Shelton Mbariro, running an unlicensed, backyard handmade shoe business has become a way to escape unemployment in this southern African nation.

HARARE, May 25 (IPS) - As the African Union is set to celebrate its 51st birthday on May 25, it does so as the continent remains caught up in a tide of terrorist conflicts, which many analysts feel the AU has done little to resolve.

HARARE, May 11 (IPS) - Madeline Murambwi sits behind the wheel of her brand new Toyota Land Cruiser, threading her way through the traffic in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. She's on her way back from the tobacco auction floors where she just pocketed thousands of dollars.

HARARE, May 05 (IPS) - Workers Day on May 1 came and went, but it's only a day like any other for disabled 31-year-old street vendor Tsitsi Chikosha making a living selling goods from a makeshift table in downtown Harare.

HARARE, Apr 21 (IPS) - Tracy Chikwari, a 36-year-old single mother of two and informal furniture dealer in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, is all smiles as she talks about her flourishing business.