THE International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant of arrest for Russian President Vladimir Putin, for supposed war crimes arising from Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, is nothing but a sham.
It is nothing but the ever intrusive hand of the West at play; a feeble attempt to...
THE recent COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of vaccine research.
An unprecedented global collaboration of scientists (and the development of mRNA vaccines that followed) was said to be akin to the ‘landing on the moon moment’.
To develop a vaccine (without compromising safety)...
ON Friday last week, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced resuming diplomatic ties courtesy of China’s mediation efforts.
There are many things to be learned from that historic move by Saudi Arabia and Iran, especially in light of the ongoing military exercise in Ukraine where the...
IT is said about 3,3 to 3,6 billion people currently live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change – though vulnerability of ecosystems and people to climate change differs substantially among and within regions.
The scale of recent changes across the climate system...
THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Dr John Basera (pictured, far right), last week announced that Zimbabwe is now food secure.
However, this reality does not sit well with the opposition and their handlers because it does...
THE International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), asserts that at least 70 percent of the very poor live in rural areas, most of them depending partly (or completely) on agriculture for their livelihoods.
Five hundred million smallholder farms in the developing world are supporting almost two...
THE odd thing in Zimbabwe is that, while the overzealous drive by Western countries to alienate the country from the rest of the world is manufactured from certain newsrooms receiving puerile instructions from embassies in Harare, there is still this disturbing silence from the...
IN 1995, as a young research scholar, I was privileged to attend the First Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held at the International Congress Centre in the German capital, Berlin.
The conference, which put...
IN ancient Great Zimbabwe, as early as the 9th Century, traditional agrarian solutions to climate change were ingrained and taught in the Shona indigenous way of life.
Ancient people of Zimbabwe understood the seasons; correctly discerned rainfall patterns, predicted droughts as well as guarded against natural...
NEWS of a new variant has been circulating recently in international epidemiological circles implying the world is about to enter another year – its fourth – of living with COVID-19.
The coronavirus has so far defied prediction and medical experts differ in their outlook...
GLOBALISATION is erasing our geographic boundaries and causing a shift towards collaboration and communities of interest, yet our local communities remain important for crisis management and immediate response.
Climate change is a reality affecting the entire globe in diverse ways.
Information technology and accurate data capture...
CLIMATE change is the long-term change in the earth’s climate caused by the release of greenhouse gases – such as carbon dioxide and methane which trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere, causing it to become hotter. (global warming, currently between 1.5°C and 2°C).
Greenhouse gases...
