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Workers in Zimbabwe exposed to toxic mercury in illegal gold mining operations

By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi

The chemical mercury is considered so dangerous to humans and the environment that more than 100 countries have agreed to try to end its use. But across the world, millions of miners are still exposed to the toxic metal. In…

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As Zimbabwe again faces inflation, government introduces gold coins

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

Rising prices and a fast depreciating currency have pushed many in Zimbabwe to the brink, reminding people of when the southern African country faced world-record inflation of 5 billion percent in 2008.

COVID-19 spike worsens Africa’s severe poverty, hunger woes

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

As 2021 comes to a close, many people in richer parts of the globe are fretting over the risk of contracting COVID-19 and how rising infections are upending their holiday plans.

South Africa ramps up vaccine drive, too late for this surge

By Andrew Meldrum, Associated Press

Some in wheelchairs, others on canes, hundreds of South Africans waited recently on the ramps of an open-air Johannesburg parking garage to get their COVID-19 vaccine shots. Despite the masks, social distancing and blustery weather of the Southern Hemisphere winter,…

Zimbabwe’s women battle gender discrimination amid pandemic

By Associated Press

In many instances, Zimbabwean women have become leaders to help the country grapple with the double trauma of COVID-19 and ongoing economic deterioration.

Zimbabwe government abuses critics, allege rights groups

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

From tweeting to Whatsapp texting, singing in public or marching in the streets, those who speak out against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government are finding themselves in trouble.

Zimbabwe continues arrests of critics, says opposition party

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

Zimbabwean rights groups say the military and police are arresting scores of opposition members and activists after authorities thwarted an anti-government protest last week.

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses strike over little virus protection

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

Zimbabwe's public hospital nurses have joined a doctors' strike over a lack of protective gear as the coronavirus spreads in a country whose health system has nearly collapsed.

Zimbabwe official says coronavirus punishes U.S. for sanctions

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

Zimbabwe's defense minister has described the coronavirus as God's way of punishing the United States and other western countries for imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe.