Zimbabwe turns to charcoal for cooking as power outages bite

A charcoal vendor in Zimbabwe arranges his wares of 50-kilogramme polythene bags full of charcoal piled on top of each other openly displaying and selling charcoal at Mbare Musika Market in Harare, on November 5, 2019. Zimbabwe is losing more than 330,000 hectares of forest annually. PHOTO | JEKESAI NJIKIZANA | AFP

Mhondoro Ngezi,

Miller Chizema walked through the forest near his home and came across a pile of freshly-cut logs -- a sight that spurred the 82-year-old villager to dismay and anger.