Informes

The "Operation Murambatsvina" carried out in Zimbabwe hit the poorest in the society. Also many children and families who are being assisted by the SOS Social Centres in Bulawayo, Waterfalls near Harare and Bindura have lost the source of…

HARARE - South Africa is most likely to financially bail out Zimbabwe because President Thabo Mbeki would rather rehabilitate President Robert Mugabe's government than let it collapse under the weight of worsening food and fuel shortages, analysts said yesterday. Pretoria,…

HARARE - A South African church group on an aid mission in Zimbabwe said on Tuesday the challenges created by President Robert Mugabe's home demolition programme would see the churches undertaking their largest ever relief campaign. Irvin Abraham, the South…

Harare (dpa) - Residents of the Zimbabwe capital Harare will have to pay hefty fines to save "illegal structures" from demolition when a controversial government clean-up campaign resumes later this month, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Residents of Harare's high-income suburbs will…

A United Nations report on the humanitarian aspects the evictions of some 200,000 people in Zimbabwe from their homes and markets is being sent to the Government of the southern African country today, just two days after Secretary-General Kofi…

The Government of Zimbabwe started to demolish houses, businesses and any building they deemed illegal on 18th of May 2005. The operation, known as Murambatsvina (Operation Restore Order) has continued since and expanded to almost all towns and peri-urban…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated April 22, 2004. BACKGROUND Zimbabwe continues to suffer from a combination of a collapsing…

HARARE - The Zimbabwe government's dreaded spy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has in the past week quizzed some clergymen, accusing them of "painting a negative picture" of the government's controversial clean-up campaign to United Nations (UN) envoy Anna Tibaijuka. In what…

NEW YORK - United Nations secretary general Koffi Annan has again expressed concern over the impact of the government's demolition of homes in Zimbabwe blamed for throwing close to a million people onto the streets. In a statement released in…