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06/04/2025

Impact Stories Zimbabwe Health Correspondent Scoops Funeral Insurance Journalist of the Year Award

The Impact Stories Zimbabwe team heartily congratulates Catherine Murombedzi on attaining the top gong in the Funeral Insurance category of the just-ended Insurance & Pensions Media Awards (IPMA) 2025.

28/03/2025

Zimbabwe Takes Major Leap in Disease Surveillance with New Polio Laboratory

17/03/2025

Is there Justice in the ‘Just Energy Transition’?

Yeukai Ottilia Munetsi Madzika, a climate and environment journalist based in Gweru describes the deplorable socio-economic living conditions in mineral rich communities, where huge mining concerns are extracting the vast mineral wealth while locals live in squalor. This brings into question the claim of a ‘just energy transition’.

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12/03/2025

UPCOMING EPISODE ALERT: WOMEN AND CLIMATE CHANGE. In this week’s episode of the Midlands Climate Conversations , we engage with Yeukai Ottilia Munetsi Madzika an environment and climate change journalist based in Gweru. In the spirit of International Women’s month, Yeukai shares her experiences documenting the lived realities of women in Zimbabwe’s rural communities hard hit by the effects of climate change. Not to miss this thought-provoking episode coming up this Friday Subscribe to our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCblavb_J4LxBY0zdkAdChdg

14/02/2025

Kutsaga Research celebrates Dr. A.J. Masuka's outstanding achievement as the Best World Minister at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Zim Agricultural Marketing Authority Agribusiness Media To***co Industry & Marketing Board Mavis Rukweza Nyakachiranje Zimbabwe Young Farmers-Fyfcz Zimbabwe Farmers' Union Tembo Chantel Onhardt To***co Private Limited Tanzania Leaf To***co Company Agricultural and Rural Development Authority fans To***co Farmer Talk - TFT Club To***co Industry Security Association TO***CO FARMING TRAININGS Zimbabwe To***co Association ZimTrade Zimbabwe ZiMunda Farming Impact Stories Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Agricultural Society Official Zimbabwe Farmers In Business Zimbabwe Plant Breeders Association Zimbabwe To***co Farming Consultants. Zimbabwe Agricultural Society Zimbabwe Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Services Project Zimpapers Agriculture Journal Zimbabwe Sweet Potato Growers Association Zimbabwe Young Farmer's Network Zimbabwe Agricultural Growth Programme - ZAGP Zimbabwe To***co Seed Association

13/02/2025

Young innovators urged to apply for Zimtrade's Eagles Nest 2025 Agri-Challenge

Writes Wallace Mawire

Zimtrade, Zimbabwe’s national trade development and export promotion agency, has launched the 2025 Eagles Nest Agri-Challenge, calling on young innovators and entrepreneurs to submit agricultural solutions with growth potential.
The initiative aims to identify, nurture, and reward innovative agribusinesses that align with national goals such as job creation, sustainable farming, food security, and technological advancement in agriculture.
READ MORE: https://impactstories.co.zw/2025/02/13/young-zim-innovators-urged-to-apply-for-zimtrades-eagles-nest-2025-agri-challenge/

12/02/2025

Drug Resistant TB Treatment Price Slashed

Locals Welcome Move, Urge Government Funding for TB Treatment

Writes Catherine Murombedzi, Health Correspondent

The Stop TB Partnership's Global Drug Facility (GDF) has announced a significant price reduction for medicines used to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The price of bedaquiline, a critical drug in DR-TB treatment, has been reduced by 54% to US$90 per treatment course, down from US$194 in August 2023.

READ MORE: https://impactstories.co.zw/2025/02/12/drug-resistant-tb-treatment-price-slashed/

Tagged: Alliance of Community Based Organisations - ACBOs Jointed Hands Welfare Organisation Stop TB Partnership Ministry of Health and Child Care

11/02/2025

Polluting countries owe Africa trillions in climate debt

Writes Wallace Mawire

Africa is owed US$36 trillion in climate debt by rich polluting countries, a new report by ActionAid shows, ahead of the African Union (AU) Summit next week. The new report by ActionAid reveals that over three quarters of all low-income countries spend more on foreign debt than on their own health care systems, and more than half spend more on debt servicing than education.

READ MORE: https://impactstories.co.zw/2025/02/11/polluting-countries-owe-africa-trillions-in-climate-debt/

Tagged: Alliance of Community Based Organisations - ACBOs ActionAid Gibraltar ActionAid Zimbabwe ActionAid

11/02/2025

MCAZ joins forces with African Regulatory Agencies to improve healthcare

Writes Catherine Murombedzi
Health Correspondent

The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) is among 7 regulators that signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and African Union Development Agency — New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD).

READ MORE: https://impactstories.co.zw/2025/02/11/mcaz-joins-forces-with-african-regulatory-agencies-to-improve-healthcare/

10/02/2025

Zimbabwean Customer Experience Leader Benson Mukandiwa Earns Global Recognition

Writes Learnmore Nyoni

Zimbabwean customer experience guru, Benson Mukandiwa, a chartered manager and member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) United Kingdom, was ranked as one of the top 10 World Customer Experience Professionals for 2023 by the United States-based Global Gurus Research Company.

Mukandiwa authored many books, including bestselling Customer and Employee Satisfaction. He trains customer management around the world through keynote addresses, articles and tweets.
https://impactstories.co.zw/2025/02/10/zimbabwean-customer-experience-leader-benson-mukandiwa-earns-global-recognition/

10/02/2025

Kutsaga Research celebrates milestones in to***co research

Writes Wallace Mawire

The To***co Research Board (TRB), trading as Kutsaga, is celebrating 75 years of excellence in to***co research. To mark the diamond jubilee, Kutsaga held a to***co seed and variety field day at Kutsaga Research Station on 6 February, 2025, to celebrate progress in to***co cultivation and it's impact on the entire value chain.

Read More: https://impactstories.co.zw/2025/02/10/kutsaga-celebrates-milestones-in-to***co-research/

04/02/2025

Zimbabwe NCDs Action Network (ZNAN) Joins the Global Community to Celebrate World Cancer Day 2025

On February 4, 2025, the Zimbabwe NCDs Action Network (ZNAN) is joining the global community to commemorate World Cancer Day, a day set aside to raise awareness about cancer and its impact on individuals, families, and communities.
READ MORE https://impactstories.co.zw/2025/02/04/zimbabwe-ncds-action-network-joins-the-global-community-to-celebrate-world-cancer-day-2025/

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