No image available
/ 23 January 2009
Many Zimbabwean women cross into Mozambique to escape the crisis in their home country, but a growing number turn to commercial sex to survive.
Mother-of-two Nyasha, desperate to put food on the table for her family back home in Zimbabwe, turned to sex work in neighbouring Mozambique after being told that it was a surefire way of earning United States dollars. "The money is little, but if I save it properly I will be able to send groceries that will sustain my family for some days," said the 23-year-old.
Large field rats from Western Africa are being used in Mozambique to detect landmines that still threaten hundreds of thousands of people and hamper economic activity 13 years after the end of a brutal war that claimed up to one million lives.