Monthly Archives: September 2021
Nozipho Rutsate in Zimbabwe “It was 10am on a Tuesday morning as I was sitting quietly at my corner desk. I gazed into the ceiling trying to figure out where I would get my next story after submitting my last article to the editor of our weekly community newspaper. Having been new in the newsroom, […]
HIGHLIGHTS • On 11 September, a non-State armed group (NSAG) announced a general lockdown in the North-West and South-West (NWSW) regions from 15 September to 2 October 2021. • All schools and community learning spaces were closed, except for some schools in a few urban areas which are operating at less than 60 per cent […]
Nozipho Rutsate Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) recently conducted a meeting with persons with disabilities (PWDs) from Gweru to raise awareness on the delimitation process ahead of the 2023 elections by sharing findings of a research carried out to assess the disability inclusion status in our communities. The Disability Inclusion Research Report was launched beginning […]
Nozipho Rutsate Disasters come, go or continue to live amongst us but in all their existence, People with Disabilities (PWDs) have always been on the periphery of being included in responding to disasters. Amongst Zimbabwe’s 1.5 million people living with disabilities, according to figures released by the National Association of Societies for the Care of […]
Delivering an update to the forum in Geneva, Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al- Nashif, highlighted “staggering levels of localized violence”. She attributed this to community-based militias who were responsible for almost all killings, injuries, abductions and sexual violence between April and June this year. Fight against impunity ‘minimal’ According to the UN […]
On 22 September 2021, US President Joe Biden hosted a Global COVID-19 Summit on the side-lines of the 76th United Nations General Assembly, bringing together leaders in government, business, and philanthropy to commit to an equitable pandemic response and to building a stronger global pandemic preparedness architecture. Speaking at the event, Reeta Roy, President and […]
Press Release The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group have approved a new policy framework for the Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM) aimed at strengthening accountability and providing more effective recourse to people affected by Bank-financed operations. The policy framework is the result of a series of internal and public stakeholder consultations that […]
By Nabeel Biajo South Sudan’s Vice President Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior is calling on the United Nations to lift its three-year-old arms embargo on South Sudan. De Mabior, scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, told VOA in an exclusive interview that the embargo hinders implementation of South Sudan’s 2018 peace agreement, […]
By William Worley, Raquel Alcega Cuts to the United Kingdom’s aid budget will hit lower-income and fragile countries harder than middle-income nations, some of which will enjoy aid budget increases, a Devex analysis of government figures has shown. U.K. bilateral aid to countries classified by the World Bank as low- and lower-middle-income will fall by a total […]
The Zimbabwe Organization for Youth in Politics (ZOYP) in partnership with NGO Africa Watch has launched a new programme that will focus on Climate Change and Environmental Care Management. The Climate Change programme adds to ZOYP’s political programmes that seek to capacitate young people vying for political office. Speaking at the Youth from All Political […]