Situational Overview In the first quarter of 2025, Zimbabwe continued to grapple with multiple humanitarian shocks, including disease outbreaks, heavy rains and floods, and an African armyworm...
Situational Overview In 2024, an El Niño-induced drought left 7.6 million people in urgent need of humanitarian aid across Zimbabwe. Since December 2023, prolonged dry spells, high temperatures, and...
FULL REPORT The year marked the downscaling of WFP’s humanitarian response following cyclone Idai and several years of drought, as the country recorded its highest cereal harvest in 20 years. WFP...
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SITUATION UPDATE Despite an improvement in the food security situation in most parts of rural Zimbabwe this year following an above-average 2020/2021 harvest, the prevailing economic situation,...
Overview Points of Entry (PoEs) and border communities are at the frontline of public health emergencies such as the COVID19 pandemic. Ensuring that infection prevention and control measures and risk...
SITUATION UPDATE The food security situation in rural Zimbabwe improved significantly in the first half of 2021, following an above-average 2020/2021 harvest. Nationally, average household cereal...
Situation Update Heavy rainfall during the 2020/2021 season (October-March)—including due to Tropical Storm Chalane in December 2020—enabled farmers in Zimbabwe to plant crops and caused significant...
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SITUATION UPDATE Following relatively good rains in the 2019/2020 season and a major scale-up in food assistance, there has been a reduction in severe food insecurity in 2020 compared to 2019...
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COUNTRY CONTEXT Lock down The initial 21-day lock down on the country which ended on 19 April, 2020 was extended by two weeks to 3 May, 2020; Only essential services (food, hospitals etc) remain...
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From late 2018 until March 2020, several countries in Southern Africa were affected by severe drought due to below average or erratic rainfalls and extreme temperatures. Resulting reductions in the...
SITUATION OVERVIEW Humanitarian needs continued to rise in Zimbabwe as the price of basic goods increased, while families struggled to cope with drought and the aftermath of Cyclone Idai. At the same...
The deepening economic crisis combined with the impact of climate shocks, including prolonged drought, continued to cause the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe. Various...
Overview In Zimbabwe, the poor performance of the economy negatively affected the livelihoods of both rural and urban households, with up to 81.5 per cent of households reporting cash shortages and...
