Fourteen people died of diarrhoea countrywide during the first week of this month, Ministry of Health and Child Care said yesterday.

Twenty seven people were killed by wild animals across Zimbabwe during the first quarter of 2015, as human-wildlife conflicts run deeper. Fifteen sustained injuries at varying degrees.

Mutare-Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has come under fire from Marange villagers who accused the state watchdog of folding its hands while the diamond miners were destroying the environment.

Zimbabwe has reportedly recorded a 5, 5 percent reduction in mother to child HIV transmission in 2014 from 30 percent in 2009.

THE Environmental Management Agency EMA says a health time bomb is ticking in Harare where thousands of people living in sprouting settlements doted around the city are drinking human waste contami

Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North is reportedly faced with a severe drought which might see the province losing at least 600 000 cattle.

Zimbabwe has shipped 24 elephant calves to China, in a move that has angered animal rights groups who described the export as “extremely cruel”.

Zimbabwe has exported 20 elephants to private game parks in China as part of conservation efforts and amid rising poaching in southern Africa.

TWELVE people died of diarrhoea countrywide last week, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said yesterday.

Zimbabweans may soon be immunised against HIV transmission if trials for a vaccine to prevent the spread of the deadly virus expected to start in the near future are successful.