HomeResource CenterFinancial SanctionsOFAC Recent ActionsZimbabwe Designations; ​OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL Specially Designated Nationals List Update The following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List: The following entity has been added to OFAC's SDN List: The following deletions have been made to OFAC's SDN List: HARARE Zimbabwe put its wild animals up for sale on Tuesday, saying it needed buyers to step in and save the beasts from a devastating drought.Members of the public "with the capacity to acquire and manage wildlife" - and enough land to hold the animals - should get in touch to register an interest, the state Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said.There were no details on the animals on offer or their cost, but the southern African country's 10 national parks are famed for their huge populations of elephants, lions, rhinos, leopards and buffalos.

A drought across the region has left more than 4 million Zimbabweans needing aid and hit the crops they rely on for food and export earnings, from maize to tobacco.It has also exacerbated an economic crisis in the cash-strapped country that has largely been deserted by foreign donors since 1999.Selling the animals would give some of them a new home and ease financial pressure on the parks authority, which says it receives little government funding and struggles to get by on what it earns through hunting and tourism. "In light of the drought ... Parks and Wildlife Management Authority intends to destock its parks estates through selling some of the wildlife," the authority said in a statement. It asked interested Zimbabweans to get in touch and did not mention foreign buyers. Parks authority spokeswoman Caroline Washaya-Moyo would not say whether the animals could be exported or how many it wanted to sell."We do not have a target. The number of animals depends on the bids we receive," she said.

There was no immediate comment from the wildlife groups that protested loudly last year when Zimbabwe exported 60 elephants, half of them to China, where the animals are prized for their tusks.About 54,000 of Zimbabwe's 80,000 elephants live in the western Hwange National Park, more than four times the number it is supposed to hold, the agency says. The drought is expected to worsen an already critical water shortage in Hwange, which has no rivers and relies on donors to buy fuel to pump out underground wells.The privately-owned Zimbabwe Independent newspaper reported in February that Bubye Conservancy, a private game park in southern Zimbabwe, could be forced to kill 200 lions to reduce over-population.Many hunters have stayed away, the paper quoted Bubye general manager Blondie Leathem as saying, since the furor over the killing of Cecil, a rare black-maned lion, by a U.S. dentist last year. (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by James Macharia and Andrew Heavens)Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, has long struggled with drought and a decrepit infrastructure.

The city’s one million residents have access to running water only 72 hours a week due to drought conditions: local dams have lacked water runoff for the last 20 months. Bulawayo, unlike much of Africa, actually is full of flush toilets – which are now contributing to the city’s water crisis.Meanwhile, city officials have worried that austere water rationing could cause the city’s aging sewage pipes to dry and then become blocked or even worse, burst. business for sale cairns districtSo Bulawayo’s leaders asked the residents to participate in a “big flush” concurrently at 7:30pm on Saturday evening. handyman repair services singaporeWhether a city that flushes together stays together, however, is yet to be determined. business for sale krugersdorp south africa

Confusion and frustration with the country’s government festered as citizens were reminded once again about Zimbabwe’s incompetent public officials.Blame for Bulawayo’s water scarcity lies all over the map. Critics point to the legacy of corruption and bungling under President Robert Mugabe that transformed Zimbabwe from one of Africa’s richest countries into an economic basket case. business for sale eau claire wiOthers would highlight the decades of colonization. handyman business name generatorThe real culprit, however, is the drought festering for almost two years in southwest Zimbabwe and an infrastructure that has begged for new pipes for over 30 years.business for sale gourockThe success of Saturday night’s flush-in was mixed.

When The Guardian asked a local human rights activist about the flushing order, Jenni Williams replied, “They forgot to tell us and we would not be able to do it anyway.” And to demonstrate the difficulty of participating in a massive flush exercise when many residents lack water, Williams reported that when asked her colleagues, the universal response was: “With what water?” Confirming that this idea was one best suited for the crapper, another interviewee said, “You don’t have any alarm to remind you.” Other residents reported to the Associate Press that they were unaware of the civic exercise, even though some bureaucrats had threatened to fine households that did not participate in the ambitious flush fest. Another human rights activist, however, told the BBC that the giant flush went smoothly and was an exercise in local family dynamics. The BBC quoted Dumisami Mpofu as saying, “I made sure my wife and children flushed the toilet at 19:30 to avoid blocking our own toilet.

So far, the flushing of toilets was a success here in Cowdray Park township.”Not everyone was impressed; one resident told the BBC that the initiative was “a joke,” and suggested that the city find donors to replace the aging sewer pipes.Scatological jokes aside, Zimbabwe’s political situation plunks the country a notch above North Korea among countries where international aid organizations want to scale water stewardship programs.If there’s a number one and a number two lesson to be learned from what is going on in Bulawayo, then 1) the toilet, a Victorian era invention that has changed little the past 150 years, needs a complete reinvention because 2) with the way the globe’s population is surging while fresh water supplies plummet, the world cannot afford to have 7 billion, let alone 9 billion people, all use flush toilets. This sorry episode in southwest Zimbabwe is yet another example of why the quest for the water free toilet is a disruptive technology the world needs sooner rather than later.