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Stephen Tsoroti works from Harare. Journalist, Media consultant,Writer, Analyst,Podcaster, Development, Health and Environment writer Stephen Tsoroti has over 88 followers on Twitter.

Close encounters: As boreholes and waterholes dry up, elephants, lions and people are forced into the same narrow corridors to survive. ZimParks lists Hwange as a hotspot but it does not publish exact death figures or the dollar cost of destroyed crops for the district. The gap is not just data. It is money. Photos: Supplied

Wildlife at the door, survival on the line

On the border of Hwange National Park, local communities are using mobile technology and community ranger networks to prevent deadly human-wildlife conflicts, while awaiting…

Pan-African Parliament president Fortune Charumbira has denied that he sexually assaulted his niece and does not intend to step down from his position.

African Union leader charged with sexual assault

The charges against the Pan-African Parliament’s president are the latest in a string of alleged offences by senior African leaders

Suspicion, fear and secrecy: An artisan miner processes ore. The gold is weighed by syndicates to calculate what to pay the miners. (Cynthia Matonhodze/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Inside Zim’s illicit gold mine trade

Desperate people mine the mineral, but it is ‘untouchable big people’, including top state officials, who reap the real benefits

More than 30 000 people in Zimbabwe have been tested for HIV as part of large-scale population-based HIV assessments expected to take place in up to 20 countries.

Home visits give instant HIV results and data set to guide more than a dozen African countries’ programmes

The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action

Although some disabled children have finally been placed in an appropriate school

Zimbabwe health workers fight the odds to provide free care to disabled children

A Harare rehabilitation unit offers impaired youngsters free therapy and supports parents too.

Bikers go full throttle to speed up TB cure in Zimbabwe

A programme with the health department sees motorbikes being used to deliver drugs to people in far-flung places who can’t afford the fare.