Informes

Harare (dpa) -- Seven weeks into a controversial clean-up campaign, police in Zimbabwe have ordered people in a low-income Harare suburb to demolish illegal buildings, a resident said Tuesday. The man, from Hatcliffe in the north of the capital, said police…

Harare, 05 July 2005 07:19 - The giant prehistoric Balancing Rocks that stand 16km from the centre of Harare are one of the great symbols of Zimbabwe, etched on to banknotes and pictured in every tourist guide. Immediately across the…

Migrants whose homes have been destroyed by security forces say they have nowhere to go. By Dzikamayi Chidyausiku in Harare (Africa Reports No 38, 05-Jul-05) Zimbabwe's controversial urban clean-up has hit thousands of people of Malawian and Zambian origin who…

Harare July 5 (dpa) - Zimbabweans were given no warning of a government campaign of shack demolitions that is likely to aggravate disease, including HIV, an association of doctors claimed in a statement Tuesday. The government's claim that Operation Restore Order…

By Tendai Maphosa Harare, 05 July 2005 - The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights says there is danger of disease outbreaks as a result of the ongoing government crackdown on informal traders and unapproved residential structures. The doctors…

HARARE, 5 July 2005 - The United Nations Special Envoy for human settlements issues in Zimbabwe, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka was scheduled to travel to Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo by road on Tuesday in the next phase of her…

IOM Harare is launching a nationwide information campaign on cross border mobility, irregular migration and HIV/AIDS this month. The programme aims to encourage potential migrants to make informed choices when they consider emigrating, increase public awareness on the risks of irregular…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 4 July (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), met with President Thabo Mbeki at the weekend, ahead of a meeting of African leaders…

After a week of meetings in Zimbabwe with the President as well as ordinary citizens who have been evicted from their homes, a United Nations special envoy plans further travels in the country as part of her fact-finding mission…

Johannesburg (dpa) - Unemployed Zimbabweans, who had received parcels of land, should build on it instead of dwelling in city slums, said Deputy Housing Minister Morris Sakabuya Monday in Cape Town. Speaking at an international housing seminar, Sakabuya said Zimbabwe's Operation…