Analysis - " . . . the indigenous people in Zimbabwe . . . while also venerating their ancestors, looked to a powerful deity known as Mwali, or Mwari, for rain, successful crops, and the health of ...

ZIMUNYA, Zimbabwe, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Under worryingly clear skies, men gathered amid sparse, drought-shrivelled trees at the edge of this remote village in eastern Zimbabwe to ...

The art of rainmaking got a bad setback more than a year ago when the Air Force and the Weather Bureau spewed quantities of dry ice into juicy Ohio clouds and produced hardly any rain (TIME, Dec ...

A towering "rain control" site, where shamans would have asked the gods to open up the skies centuries ago, has been discovered in South Africa.

But as rainmaking makes a comeback in parts of parched Zimbabwe, scientists warn that such traditions may prove a distraction from more effective ways to deal with drought.