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Feature: Zim fights fake news with lessons in spotting disinformation

Misinformation is simply incorrect information, while disinformation refers to deliberately sharing information that is known to be false with the intention of deceiving people.

By Thomson Reuters Foundation Nov. 1, 2022

Feature: Zim fights fake news with lessons in spotting disinformation

Feature: Zim's women-only rangers fight poachers, poverty

The Akashinga unit — aka The Brave Ones in the Shona language — says it aims to change the face of conservation as the country's first armed, all-women anti-poaching unit.

By Thomson Reuters Foundation Nov. 23, 2022

Feature: Zim's women-only rangers fight poachers, poverty

Feature: Zim looks to public to provide solar power amid energy crisis

The southern African nation is suffering a prolonged power shortage, especially after its main Kariba hydropower plant last month cut electricity generation due to low water levels.

By Thomson Reuters Foundation Jan. 13, 2023

Feature: Zim looks to public to provide solar power amid energy crisis

Zimbabwe looks to public to provide solar power amid energy crisis

Farmer Kalani Ndlovu, for instance, wants to expand his 13 kilowatt (KW) solar mini-grid — used to pump well water to fill a farm reservoir — and sell the excess power to the state.

By Thomson Reuters Foundation Jan. 15, 2023

Zimbabwe looks to public to provide solar power amid energy crisis

Heatwaves in India drive leading clean-energy state back to coal

Kapil Mohan, additional chief secretary with Karnataka's energy department, described April as the "peak summer month" with record temperatures and high power consumption.

By Thomson Reuters Foundation Apr. 30, 2023