Farai Shawn Matiashe

Farai Shawn Matiashe is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Mutare, Zimbabwe who writes for Aljazeera, CNN International, The Economist, The Africa Report, New Lines and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Farai, who has reported from several countries across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas, often reports from rural areas.

A health worker disinfects a cholera tent at Kuwadzana Polyclinic in Harare.
Poverty

Zimbabwe's Village Health Workers Persist in Cholera Battle

by Farai Shawn Matiashe

The southern African nation is still battling an outbreak that began a year ago