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Cyril Zenda
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Cyril Zenda is a Zimbabwean freelance journalist and writer based in Harare.

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June 17, 2021
‘Black Lives Don’t Matter’? Outrage Over Alleged Racist Mozambican Rescue Operation
topic:Racism
by:Cyril Zenda
Reports that white people and dogs were given priority during a rescue mission at a hotel have infuriated the local black population of Mozambique.
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June 09, 2021
Anxiety and anger as Zimbabwe mulls elephant cull
topic:Conservation
by:Cyril Zenda
Zimbabwe is tangled in a debate on how to manage the increasing wildlife-human conflict while avoiding an ecological disaster and respecting animal rights.
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May 28, 2021
“Pay Us Before We Die”: Ailing Ex-South African Miners Plead
topic:Human Rights
by:Cyril Zenda
Delays in disbursing the $400 million compensation awarded to African miners who had contracted diseases are causing intended beneficiaries sleepless nights
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May 20, 2021
Statelessness In Zimbabwe: ‘We Are Like Stray Animals’
topic:Human Rights
by:Cyril Zenda
A recent report shows that over 300,000 people are trapped in the misery of statelessness in Zimbabwe, living their lives on society's margins.
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April 29, 2021
Fresh land grabs in Zimbabwe kick villagers off ancestral lands
topic:Indigenous people
by:Cyril Zenda
The new wave of land seizures in Zimbabwe is dispossessing indigenous villagers of their ancestral lands.
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April 23, 2021
Rwandan refugees in Zimbabwe resist repatriation 27 years after genocide
topic:Refugees and Asylum
by:Cyril Zenda
Rwandan refugees in the diaspora are still afraid to return to their home country despite a UN declaration that it is safe to do so.
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April 15, 2021
The role of African traditions and beliefs in wildlife conservation
topic:Conservation
by:Cyril Zenda
People of the elephant, zebra, lion, kudu and other totems not only do not kill these animals, but actually protect them as members of their own clan.
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March 31, 2021
What is the Mozambican government trying to hide?
topic:Freedom of Expression
by:Cyril Zenda
The Mozambican government's crackdown on media workers escalates as the latter shed light on the authorities' gross human rights violations in Cabo Delgado.
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March 17, 2021
20 years after Bosch’s hanging, change is slow to come in Botswana
topic:Death Penalty
by:Cyril Zenda
Onalenna Chabaya, a volunteer at a Botswana-based NGO lobbying to end capital punishment, spoke to FairPlanet about the challenges the organisation faces.
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February 26, 2021
Lack of mother-tongue use blamed for declining performance in Zimbabwe's schools
topic:Child rights
by:Cyril Zenda
Education stakeholders trace the worrisome trend of deploying teachers who cannot speak learners’ mother languages.
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February 03, 2021
Joy as Kenya grants citizenship to stateless descendant of migrants from Zimbabwe
topic:Good Governance
by:Cyril Zenda
The government of Kenya granted full citizenship to stateless members of the Shona community, a move that could inspire other gov'ts to follow suit.
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January 05, 2021
Botswana Abolishes Law Excluding Married Women From Land Ownership
topic:Women’s rights
by:Cyril Zenda
Although most African and Asian farmers are women, only about 15 percent of global farmland is owned by women.
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December 15, 2020
Death Row Population Headache for Zambia
topic:Death Penalty
by:Cyril Zenda
The government says while it has always been ready for abolition, there is need for rights groups to help it in changing the attitudes of citizens.
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December 01, 2020
Latest Killing Amplifies Danger Facing Rights Activists in South Africa
topic:Security
by:Cyril Zenda
South Africa has become an increasingly hazardous place for anti-mining activists, environmentalists and human rights defenders to work in.
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November 16, 2020
‘Fish-rot’ scandal stink reaches far beyond Namibia’s shores
topic:Transparency and Corruption
by:Cyril Zenda
Icelandic seafood giant Samherji allegedly bribed senior Namibian officials and politicians to get lucrative fishing quotas and avoided paying taxes.
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November 10, 2020
Migrants further imperil Africa’s endangered wildlife
topic:Hunting & Poaching
by:Cyril Zenda
Migrant communities are buying up local wildlife, and further endangering pangolins, tortoises, pythons, leopards, hyenas and other species.
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