7,6 million Zimbabweans, almost half the population, are in need of aid given the severe drought in the country, the UN has reported; in June, the UN appealed for $429 million, but funding has been slow to materialise

A ban on the import and sale of second-hand clothing and on street and night vending has been announced as informal trading practices have harmed formal businesses in Harare

Parirenyatwa, Zimbabwe's largest referral hospital is operating with a single intensive care unit serving all wards in the facility, amid a need of surgeries, including those for the 4500 children born each year with congenital hearts diseases

An electricity failure hit the whole of Zimbabwe last week, as a system failure resulted in loss of generation at its two power stations and electricity import from South Africa,, Zambia and Mozambique was also interrupted

25 years after the land reform program that seized land from white Zimbabwean farmers provoking international uprising and internal chaos, some of them have accepted a compensation deal that many think unfair while other social groups find it too generous