Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe wildlife habitat to cull at least 50 elephants due to overcrowding

Meat from the cull will be distributed to local people to eat, while the ivory from the killed animals will be handed over to the parks authority.

 A group of elephants walk near a solar panel at a watering hole inside Hwange National Park, in Zimbabwe, October 23, 2019
Palaeontologists pose for a picture next to an excavation of dinosaur bones and fossils that may have belonged to the largest dinosaur ever discovered, in Neuquen, Argentina November 12, 2016.

New dinosaur species discovered in Zimbabwe highlights Africa's paleontological potential

Meet the mysterious 'ostrich people' of Zimbabwe

 BRIAN AND Audrey Brom, their children, and their nephew Myer Brom and sons.

This Torah was smuggled from Zimbabwe to Israel


New leader of Tucson’s Holocaust museum is a genocide survivor herself

“I grew up understanding that people in power can decide they want to wipe out a group of people who are government opponents or people from a different ethnic group."

Gugulethu Moyo is the new executive director of the Tucson Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center

Families sleep in water lines as drought grips Zimbabwe's Bulawayo

As the parched southern African country endures its worst drought in years - a problem scientists link to climate change - Bulawayo suffers ongoing water shortages.

A cow stands on caked mud before a small patch of water at a dam as the region deals with a prolonged drought near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, January 18, 2020. Picture taken January 18, 2020.

IsraAID response team heading to Mozambique

The Israeli humanitarian group will provide relief supplies and medical care, restore access to potable water and offer psychological support to those affected.

A man looks at a washed away bridge along Umvumvu river following Cyclone Ida

Death toll in Mozambique cyclone, floods could surpass 1,000 - president

Eighty-four deaths have been confirmed so far in Mozambique as a result of Cyclone Idai.

A man looks at a washed away bridge along Umvumvu river following Cyclone Ida

South African Jewish farmers concerned about land expropriation

This comes after Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the African National Congress (ANC) adopted a motion for the expropriation of white-owned land.

Farm workers harvest cabbages at a farm in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, June 8, 2017

Zimbabwe's Jews: A shtetl in Africa

A Zimbabwean Jew, I grew up in a bubble within a bubble – a member of the tightly knit Jewish community within the larger white community.

The Shaare Shalom synagogue in Harare

Africa could use another peaceful coup this year!

“Africa is the wealthiest continent, but the poorest and least developed.”

A man calling for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down protests in Harare, Zimbabwe

Defying the odds – Zimbabwe and the Balancing Rocks

With Mugabe gone, the child in me wonders whether the Balancing Rocks have done their job and will slowly begin to tumble over in relief.

ZIMBABWEANS CELEBRATE the resignation of Robert Mugabe

Good to the last drop – and then some

By day Labe works as a research assistant to a professor of dental medicine in Tel Aviv.

Daughter of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman makes aliya

Zimbabwe's Mugabe resigns, ending four decades of rule

The resignation letter written that was read out by the speaker of the country's parliament made no mention of who he was leaving in charge of the country.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends the launch of basic commodities in Harare, Zimbabwe July 16, 2008.