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Esther Zinyoro Gwena holds one of the babies she has just delivered in her tiny apartment in the poor suburb of Mbare in Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Grandmother Esther Zinyoro Gwena claims to be guided by the holy spirit and has become a local hero, as the country’s economic crisis forces closure of medical facilities, and mothers-to-be seek out untrained birth attendants.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

No training, no gloves: Zimbabwe’s desperate childbirths

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday Nov. 10, 2019, a dead elephant lays in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. More than 200 elephants have died amid a severe drought, Zimbabwe's parks agency said Tuesday Nov. 12, and a mass relocation of animals is planned to ease congestion. (AP Photo)

Zimbabwe says 200 elephants have now died amid drought

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

In this Oct, 27, 2019, photo, a bird stands on a sun-baked pool that used to be a perennial water supply in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. Elephants, zebras, hippos, impalas, buffaloes and many other wildlife are stressed by lack of food and water in the park, whose very name comes from the four pools of water normally filled by the flooding Zambezi River each rainy season, and where wildlife traditionally drink. The word “mana” means four in the Shona language. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Drought parches southern Africa, millions faced with hunger

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

In this Oct, 27, 2019, photo, the carcass of a Buffalo lies on the edges of a sun baked pool that used to be a perennial water supply in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. Elephants, zebras, hippos, impalas, buffaloes and many other wildlife are stressed by lack of food and water in the park, whose very name comes from the four pools of water normally filled by the flooding Zambezi River each rainy season, and where wildlife traditionally drink. The word “mana” means four in the Shona language. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s severe drought killing elephants, other wildlife

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2015, file photo, an elephant crosses a road at a national park in Hwange, Zimbabwe. At least 55 elephants have starved to death in the past two months in Zimbabwe's biggest national park as a serious drought forces animals to stray into nearby communities in search of food and water, authorities said Monday Oct. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe says 55 elephants have starved to death in 2 months

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

‘It’s a nightmare’: Zimbabwe struggles with hyperinflation

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, two layers of barbed wire fencing ring the &quot;Hotan City apparel employment training base&quot; where Hetian Taida Apparel Co. has a factory in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. The Trump Administration is blocking shipments from Chinese company Hetian Taida Apparel, which makes baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses, after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Company making Costco pajamas flagged for forced labor

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, residents pass by the entrance to the &quot;Hotan City apparel employment training base&quot; where Hetian Taida Apparel Co. has a factory in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. The Trump administration on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, announced it is stopping imports of clothing, gold, diamonds and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China and Malaysia as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe. Hetian Taida Apparel Co., Ltd. in Xinjiang, is one of the companies sanctioned. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

US blocks goods from companies suspected of forced labor

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People walk home in the dark due to power shortages in Harare, on Monday Sept. 30, 2019. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to present a State of the Nation address Tuesday, at a time the southern African nation is reeling from its worst economic crisis in more than a decade. Zimbabweans are enduring shortages of everything from medicines, fuel, cash and water- bringing a weariness and disgust that has often flared into streets protests. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe opposition lawmakers walk out of president’s speech

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

US blocks goods from 5 countries for suspected forced labor

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Children carry firewood near the place where former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was supposed to be buried at the National Heroes Acre, in Harare, Friday, Sept, 27, 2019. Zimbabwe's former president Mugabe will now be buried at his rural home, according to a government spokesperson. Mugabe's burial location has been a source of mystery and contention since his death earlier this month at age 95 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe now expected to be buried on Saturday

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

The casket of former president Robert Mugabe is loaded by military officers into a vehicle as it departs after a state funeral at the National Sports Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. African heads of state and envoys gathered to attend a state funeral for Zimbabwe's founding president, Robert Mugabe, whose burial has been delayed for at least a month until a special mausoleum can be built for his remains. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Zimbabwe drama around Mugabe’s burial place continues

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

Buckets are seen in a queue to fetch water at a borehole in Harare, Tuesday, Sept, 24, 2019. The more than 2 million residents of Zimbabwe's capital and surrounding towns are now without water after authorities shut down the city's main treatment plant, raising new fears about disease after a recent cholera outbreak while the economy crumbles further. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s capital runs dry as taps cut off for 2M people

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

The Reagan administration and prominent black Americans at the time repeatedly passed on opportunities to expose and condemn Mugabe's campaign of violence and terror, critics say. (Associated Press/File)

Robert Mugabe massacres in Zimbabwe haunt U.S.

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo taken Sept. 13, 2019, Associated Press journalist Andrew Meldrum poses for a photograph at the entrance to State House in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe. After 16 years in journalistic exile, Meldrum returned to Zimbabwe, the country where he worked as a journalist for 23 years until he was expelled by former president Robert Mugabe's government. For the past week he reported on the mourning period for Mugabe. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

‘Welcome back’ - a reporter’s fraught re-entry to Zimbabwe

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sept. 13, 2019, Associated Press journalist Andrew Meldrum poses for a photograph at the entrance to State House in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe. After 16 years in journalistic exile, Meldrum returned to Zimbabwe, the country where he worked as a journalist for 23 years until he was expelled by former president Robert Mugabe's government. For the past week he reported on the mourning period for Mugabe. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

‘Welcome back’ - a reporter’s fraught re-entry to Zimbabwe

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

A night vigil prayer is held for a missing doctor, Peter Magombeyi, by well wishers and fellow doctors at Harare hospital in Zimbabwe Tuesday, Sept,17, 2019. The Zimbabwe Hospitals Association has said that that their president, Peter Magombeyi, was abducted on Saturday, days after receiving threats on his phone. Magombeyi had expressed concerns to journalists about the poor state of Zimbabwe,s hospitals.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe doctors march as abducted leader is still missing

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

A man in the stands holds a banner with the face of former president Robert Mugabe, as members of the public queue up to view his body at the Rufaro stadium in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. The ongoing uncertainty of the burial of Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore at the age of 95, has eclipsed the elaborate plans for Zimbabweans to pay their respects to the former guerrilla leader at several historic sites. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe honored at state funeral, burial delayed

By ANDREW MELDRUM and FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

The casket of former president Robert Mugabe is carried by the presidential guard to an air force helicopter for transport to a stadium where it will lie in state, at his official residence in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. The ongoing uncertainty of the burial of Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore at the age of 95, has eclipsed the elaborate plans for Zimbabweans to pay their respects to the former guerrilla leader at several historic sites. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe to be buried in 30 days, at new mausoleum

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

A coffin carrying the remains of Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe arrives from Singapore, at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. The body of Mugabe is being flown to the capital, Harare, on Wednesday where it will be displayed at historic locations for several days before burial at a location still undecided because of friction between the ex-leader's family and the government. AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Zimbabwe honors Robert Mugabe, amid uncertainty over burial

By Andrew Meldrum and Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press