Two provinces, no rehabilitation centre: why Binga needs a recovery farm
Afrobarometer finds 79% of Zimbabweans say drug abuse is widespread, while a parliamentary committee reports no rehabilitation centres in Matabeleland North or South.
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Mozambique is no longer only a transit country: drug use is rising
AFP reports that drug-related hospital admissions in Mozambique rose 38% to more than 32,280 in a year, as a UN official calls the increase "steady and continuous".
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Half the world's schools are offline. In Mozambique, four in five people are too
ITU and UNICEF's Giga initiative says about half of the world's schools lack internet; DataReportal shows 61.6% of Zimbabweans and 80.2% of Mozambicans offline in early 2025.
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815 laptops for 113 schools: what Zimbabwe's digital learning push tells us
UNICEF and GPE handed over laptops, tablets and projectors to 113 disadvantaged schools in January 2026, and Computer Aid's Harare labs show what makes equipment last.
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Finishing school without a single experiment: lessons from Beira
A study in four Beira schools found many Mozambican learners complete junior secondary without practical work, and that simple kits improved understanding.
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2,500 women and a baobab tree: what organised harvesting looks like in Manica
Baobab Products Mozambique has trained more than 2,500 women in Manica; a collector says the price she gets rose from 4 to 12 meticais per kilo.
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Five million baobab trees, and a fair price still out of reach for pickers
Zimbabwe has an estimated five million baobab trees, four million on communal land, yet pickers report selling raw fruit for as little as 50 cents to a dollar a bucket.
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A marula cooperative in Namibia shows what organised women can earn
Eudafano Women's Cooperative brings about 2,500 women in 27 associations into a marula-oil value chain: a model for amarula harvesting in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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Almost half of Mozambique's girls marry as children. Community leaders are changing that
UNICEF says half of Mozambique's girls are affected by child marriage; leaders trained under the Spotlight Initiative reached about 3 million people after the 2019 law.
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