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The WhatsApp Groups Feeding Harare: How the Diaspora Is Bankrolling Zimbabwe’s Urban Organic Food Movement

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WhatsApp Remittances and Health: The Cost of Feeding Families Across Borders Money From Abroad, Vegetables at Home, and the Economics of Eating Clean A 32-year-old electrician from Harare never thought he would leave Zimbabwe. Nevertheless, economic collapse forced him out. Today, he lives in Cape Town’s informal settlements, working casual jobs. However, his WhatsApp notifications […]

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How Did COVID-19 Border Closures Between South Africa and Zimbabwe Impact Informal Cross-Border Traders?

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How COVID‑19 Border Closures Affected Zimbabwean Traders Opening: Lives Interrupted On 15 March 2020, Beitbridge Border Post — the key land‐border crossing between South Africa and Zimbabwe — effectively sealed for non‑essential human traffic when 35 of South Africa’s 53 land borders were closed to limit the spread of COVID‑19. ACCORD+2News24+2This seemingly technical public‐health decision rippled into the lives

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The Impact of COVID-19 on South African Border Controls and Regional Migration Patterns: A Health Policy Perspective

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 COVID-19 Migration in South Africa Introduction: Borders as Barriers to Health On 15 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster. Overnight, borders closed to all but goods and citizen repatriation, reshaping migration across Southern Africa. Maria*, a Mozambican domestic worker in Johannesburg, suddenly faced losing her job if she returned home,

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Pandemics and Migration: How Covid19 Painted the African Migration Landscape

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The Collision of Two Global Phenomena The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in late 2019 represented an unprecedented global health crisis that rapidly transformed into a multidimensional socioeconomic challenge with profound implications for human mobility worldwide. In Africa, where migration patterns have historically been characterized by complex intra-regional movements, circular migration, and various forms of displacement,

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