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Farai Shawn Matiashe

Farai Shawn Matiashe is an award winning journalist based in Mutare, Zimbabwe. His articles are published on Aljazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation, The World and Quartz Africa. Follow him on Twitter @ZuzeShawn.

Zimbabwe’s universities are manufacturing masks, gloves and hand sanitizers to beat coronavirus
April 1, 2020Quartz
HEALTH ALERT
WHO is raising coronavirus awareness globally using a WhatsApp bot developed in South Africa
March 26, 2020Quartz
The death of a young journalist from coronavirus is blamed on Zimbabwe’s weak health system
March 25, 2020Quartz
TOO LATE
Zimbabwe is offering land as compensation to white farmers, 20 years later
March 16, 2020Quartz
Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s Joseph Shabalala brought traditional Zulu music to the world
Feb. 11, 2020Quartz
A currency swap deal with China could backfire on Zimbabwe’s hope to build forex reserves
Jan. 16, 2020Quartz
MOSI-OA TUNYA
Victoria Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world, is running dry due to climate change
Dec. 11, 2019Quartz
ECO-CRASH
Zimbabwe’s central bank has reversed its ban on mobile money-for-cash transactions
Oct. 3, 2019Quartz
TURN ON THE LIGHTS
Zimbabwe turns to Tesla batteries to keep its top mobile money player running as a power crisis deepens
Sept. 13, 2019Quartz
A power outage and mobile money blackout expose the vulnerability of Zimbabwe’s economy
July 21, 2019Quartz