Informes

The European Union wishes to express its continued concern about the climate of tension in Zimbabwe, which is being aggravated by pressure on the judiciary and the intimidation of and violence against the Zimbabwean people who are unable to…

JOHANNESBURG, 27 November (IRIN) - While food aid needs remain critical in Zimbabwe, aid agencies are desperately trying to focus more attention on the collapsing health system and a lack of adequate social safety nets. In its latest Southern Africa…

JOHANNESBURG, 25 November (IRIN) - Public hospitals in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, were on Tuesday discharging patients and closing wards as a result of a nationwide nurses' strike. The nurses joined doctors at the weekend in a strike for higher…

Summary The food security outlook for the remaining five months (until April 2004) of the 2003/04 marketing year remains precarious. The total cereal gap of 493,000 MT still remains unfilled, and Government’s capacity to respond continues to…

Information Bulletin N=B0 1/03 Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Allocated: NA The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are…

Cholera outbreak in the northern provinces A cholera outbreak has been reported in the two northern districts of Kariba (Mashonaland West Province) and Binga (Matebeleland North Province). First reports of cases surfaced in mid-October and since then…

JOHANNESBURG, 18 November (IRIN) - A recent survey of households in Zimbabwe's northwestern Zvimba district, in Mashonaland West province, indicates that newly resettled communal farmers are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. However, there appears to be reluctance by donors to…

SUMMARY AIDS, poverty, hunger What began as a food crisis in Zimbabwe in 2002 has grown into a major humanitarian emergency, with people suffering the effects of a deteriorating economy, HIV/AIDS, depleted social services, and policy constraints. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is central…

Executive summary Save the Children (UK) held a training in the "Household Economy Approach" to food and livelihood security assessments for staff from national and international NGOs and government agencies (the latter on behalf of the ZimVAC) from September 29th…

JOHANNESBURG, 17 November (IRIN) - A cholera outbreak in two northern districts of Zimbabwe has so far claimed the lives of 26 people, aid agencies reported on Monday. According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) a total of 173 cholera…