Tawanda Karombo

Tawanda Karombo is a journalist based in Harare, Zimbabwe, who specializes in sub-Saharan Africa, covering climate, environment, health, economics and all things Catholic in southern Africa. Contact him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @tawakarombo.

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Augustinian Sr. Ediltrudis Clemente Chinchay works with female farmers in Nampula, Mozambique on sustainable farming method projects. She and Augustinian Sr. Aurora Jacinto run the Biodiversity and Agricultural Program, founded in Nampula in 2022 to support and educate female farmers. (Tawanda Karombo)

Augustinian sisters sustain environment and livelihoods in Mozambique

Amid a humanitarian crisis, program teaches women sustainable farming practices. 

People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19. Clashes resumed between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force after a three-day cease-fire expired June 21. (AP, file)

Remaining Salesian Sisters brave Sudan war to care for wounded and displaced

Since civil war erupted in April, only four Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco remain in Sudan. "By being with the people of Sudan, all their troubles and suffering are mine too; when they cry, I cry with them," one explains.

Q & A with Sr. Janice McLaughlin, combating human trafficking in Zimbabwe