Chris Muronzi

Es­sen­tial ser­vices are be­ing dec­i­mat­ed by brain drain as work­ers leave for high­er-pay­ing jobs abroad.

A rhi­no con­ser­va­tion­ist has turned to the world of non-fun­gi­ble to­kens to help fund ef­forts to keep poach­ers at bay.

Zim­bab­we’s fi­nance min­is­ter re­cent­ly ex­tolled the po­ten­tial for de­cen­tralised fi­nance to low­er re­mit­tance costs.

While the num­ber of peo­ple re­ceiv­ing vac­cines in­creas­es, it is still well be­low of­fi­cial tar­get of 100,000 dai­ly shots.

Since the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic struck, the num­ber of om­nibus­es op­er­at­ing in Zim­bab­we has fall­en dra­mat­i­cal­ly.

Wait times for crop pay­ments and ex­change-rate roulette can wreak hav­oc on to­bac­co farm­ers’ prof­its.

Zim­bab­wean ac­tivist has not been seen since March 2015 dis­ap­pear­ance, days af­ter urg­ing leader Robert Mu­gabe to quit.

Vul­ner­a­ble in­for­mal work­ers risk ar­rest and sick­ness to try eke out a liv­ing and feed their fam­i­lies.

Some Zim­bab­wean busi­ness­es have been pushed to the brink by the COVID pan­dem­ic, but oth­ers have lever­aged dis­rup­tions.

Coun­try ex­pe­ri­enc­ing sig­nif­i­cant surge in coro­n­avirus in­fec­tions, forc­ing au­thor­i­ties to tight­en re­stric­tions.