Dry Zimbabwe hit by blackouts, but renewables still underfunded

Loveness Madangawa prepares lunch over an open fire in Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe – she has an electric stove, but power cuts caused partly by drought hitting the main hydropower station means she has no choice. “It is not easy, but I am now used to it,” the 35-year-old mother-of-three told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the densely populated suburb of Dangamvura.