Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. HARARE, ZIMBABWE — In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, was approaching a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. He had little reason to question what was in his truck’s sealed container — he’d transported shipments for this Chinese-owned company before. “We just…
Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal HARARE, ZIMBABWE — The cholera outbreak that swept through Zimbabwe in 2008-2009 killed more than 4,000 people and sickened nearly 100,000. Parts of Harare and its surrounding suburbs were especially hard hit, and in the aftermath, attention fell on the unreliability of…
Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Not long ago, grass and flowers grew on the wetland in Borrowdale. Flocks of birds — including red and yellow bishops — were common here, and butterflies too. “Everything from anthills, fig trees and flowers. People took walks there…
Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. DOMBOSHAVA, HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Primrose Garande’s ancestors relied on the fertile pastures here to graze their cattle, and he followed in their footsteps. Now, a Chinese-funded quarry operation threatens the lush landscape. Garande no longer knows where his livestock will graze. When…
Malaria deaths in Zimbabwe have surged by an alarming 150%, rising from 34 deaths in 2024 to 85 deaths in 2025 by week 15, according to official figures released by the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC). The country has also recorded a sharp 107% increase in malaria cases, jumping from 17,539 to 36,423…
Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. At Mbare marketplace, a major trading hub in Zimbabwe, plastic bags are everywhere. Vendors stack them at the ready for customers, who tote their purchases home and often discard the bags after a single use. Many of these plastic bags are either…
Mary Mundeya / Regina Pasipanodya Panganai Mukombe (64), a senior ranger at Manjirenji Recreational Park in Chiredzi threw his entire employment life down the drain because of a cow and a few dollars, just as he was about to retire. Mukombe, worked for Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) for more than 40 years but…
Mary Mundeya Muchaneta Munodya of Mapfumo village in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province was nursing her two-week-old infant when she heard her husband Robert Maroyi screaming in pain and begging for his life. She rushed outside to discover a hyena brutalising her husband, biting off five fingers on both hands. When the animal spotted her, she became…
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