Children wait in the rain by a water bladder during a UNICEF-supported water distribution in Chegutu Town in Mashonaland West Province.
The Maisiri family sorts beans in front of their thatched-roof house in Madziire Village in the eastern Manicaland Province.
Mwaimbodei Chamutsa, sits with her three-year-old granddaughter, Busi, and watches her other grandchildren play in front of their thatched-roof house in Buhera Village in the eastern Manicaland Province.
A group of displaced persons crosses a muddy and crocodile-infested river on the way to a settlement in the village of Nyamukwara near the Mozambican border.
Forget 12 and his sister Talent 17 fetch water from a borehole in the village of Zibanani, Mangwe district some 200 Kms south of Bulawayo the second largest city.
Talent 17 carries water from a borehole in the village of Zibanani, Mangwe district some 200 Kms south of Bulawayo the second largest city.
Children watering bean plants in a nutrition garden at Shirichena Primary School, Mhondoro district about 60km south of Harare.
Zimbabwe
Climatic conditions of the country
Zimbabwe’s climate is generally sub-tropical characterized by four seasons which interchange in an interval of between three and four months. These seasons are the cool dry season from mid-May to August; hot dry season from September to mid- November; the main rainy season running from mid-November to mid-March; and the post rainy season from mid-March to mid-May. In general, the mean monthly temperature fluctuates from 15°C in July to 24°C in November and the mean annual temperature varies from 18°C on the Highveldt to 23°C in the Lowveldt. So far, the lowest minimum temperatures (7°C) are recorded in June or July and the highest maximum temperatures (29°C) in October, or if the rains are delayed, in November. Of late higher temperatures as high as 35°C have been recorded in some areas like Kariba in October 2015.