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The Zimbabwe government yesterday widened its destruction of homes and backyard cottages to Harare's affluent suburbs, barely three days after bidding farewell to a United Nations envoy who was in the country probing the controversial home demolition campaign. Armed police…

Harare (dpa) - Police detained an aid worker on Tuesday for taking photographs at a camp outside the capital of Harare, where an estimated 5,000 people fled after their homes were destroyed by a government demolition campaign, her lawyer…

Harare, 11 July 2005 United Nations Special Envoy, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, at the weekend ended a two-week assessment of the evictions of some 200,000 people in Zimbabwe to prepare a report for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "I have been in…

HARARE - Embattled President Robert Mugabe has agreed to talks with opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, to find a solution to Zimbabwe's fast deteriorating crisis. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, behind the renewed effort to pull Zimbabwe back from the brink of…

By Tendai Maphosa Harare - 10 July 2005: A South African Council of Churches delegation and representatives of non-governmental and civic organizations are in Zimbabwe on a two-day visit to assess the government's crackdown on informal businesses and unapproved…

HARARE - United Nations special envoy Anna Tibaijuka yesterday said she will leave Zimbabwe today carrying back with her memories of people struggling for accommodation after their homes were demolished by the government. She was speaking after a one and…

Fri 8 July 2005 HARARE - Zimbabwe's capital Harare has run out of bread and the National Bakers Association (NBA) yesterday blamed the shortage on the country's long running fuel crisis that has worsened in recent weeks. Long queues could…

Fri 8 July 2005 HARARE - Five people including a police officer have been killed in accidents during President Robert Mugabe's urban clean-up drive, Zimbabwe police said yesterday. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena absolved the law enforcement agency of any responsibility…

Godwin Gandu Harare 08 July 2005 07:14 - President Robert Mugabe ignored warnings from senior security officials that his government had "got it all wrong" in executing the controversial Operation Murambatsvina. The Mail & Guardian has learnt that the state security…

As head of the United Nations urban development agency, the UN Special Envoy investigating the humanitarian aspects of housing and market evictions in Zimbabwe today said she would appoint a programme manager to help the Government of the Southern…