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 Modjadji royal family members perform rainmaking rituals every October to plead with their ancestors for rain.

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 ...

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.

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.