Alopecia affects millions of women worldwide, causing hair loss on the scalp, face, or body. It’s an autoimmune disease that attacks healthy hair follicles, leading to hair loss.
As local councils in Zimbabwe incorporate gender-responsive budgeting into their masterplans, residents are wondering if this will improve their daily lives. In a ground-breaking move, local authorities were directed by
“We have been crying out for council to ensure that all council facilities and services are accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities for years, but we are still struggling with basic services.”
It is noted that the primary causes of inadequate waste disposal and management in Africa include weak strategic, institutional, and organisational structures. This is perpetrated by limited skills that are essential to waste material management; inadequate budgets; feeble legislation and lack of enforcement necessary for waste management.
On World Press Freedom Day 2024, we highlight the critical theme “A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis.” This theme is particularly important for
When a woman reaches menopause she goes for twelve continuous months without having a menstrual period. This is a result of normal ageing, in which ovaries begin to fail to produce ‘enough’ female sex hormones.
ZRDC has its work cut out for it; it caters for a rural populace where women and girls have for generations been subjected to abuse as they look for alternate energy sources. They go for miles looking for water and especially firewood. With the advent of illegal mining in the Midlands province where ZRDC is located, cases of sexual abuse of women as they search for firewood has increased. Biogas’ clean cooking energy will replace the arduous task of gathering firewood and provide a safer and more sustainable alternative.
Kwekwe city has four sewer pump stations and none of them are functional. That means all of the raw sewer in Kwekwe is flowing into Sebakwe river where we get our drinking water. It’s a very dire situation.
“It is disheartening that over the last three years we have observed that sexual harassment remains one of the bottlenecks towards achieving ultimate real freedom for female journalists.”
In the shadows of the closed mines, modern versions of the gold workers are rising and wreaking havoc on local communities.