NRZ turns to self-produced Ballast to slash expenses

In today’s edition of The Brief Bulletin, the National Railways of Zimbabwe has cut nearly US$1 million in annual costs by producing its own railway ballast at its quarry plant in Shangani. The World Food Programme has suspended malnutrition treatment for 650,000 women and children in Ethiopia due to severe funding shortages. Haiti is nearing a “point of no return” amid escalating gang violence and political instability, warned UN special representative María Isabel Salvador.