Informes

NIGER: UMCOR APPEALS FOR FAMINE RELIEF UMCOR is rushing food aid to 55 villages in southern Niger where starvation and malnourishment have become epidemic. Drought and locusts have created an acute crisis, according to officials of the humanitarian agency of…

IOM through its implementing partners, mostly national and international NGOs and churches is distributing food and non-food items to families displaced by operation Restore Order. Operation Restore Order, a government crackdown on informal settlements and markets has left an estimated…

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched an appeal for 2.48 million Swiss francs (€ 1.59 million, US$ 1.91 million) to assist the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) as it gives humanitarian assistance to…

HARARE - South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday said his government was considering loaning Zimbabwe money for fear it could inherit a massive humanitarian crisis if its troubled northern neighbour collapsed. Commenting publicly for the first time on reports that…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 25 July (IRIN) - Although Zimbabweans are yet to tally the cost of the government's controversial cleanup campaign, there are already expectations that the financial losses will be…

Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that in a discussion with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe he stressed that the southern African country's housing and market evictions must be stopped and those made homeless, estimated in a UN report at 700,000,…

Harare (dpa) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has accepted an invitation by President Robert Mugabe to visit Zimbabwe to assess the government's controversial campaign of shack clearances, the Herald newspaper reported Monday. Presidential spokesman George Charamba was quoted as saying…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 25 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Ignoring a call by the United Nations to halt evictions of people living in unauthorised housing, Zimbabwean police on Friday ordered residents out…

New York, 25 July 2005 - UN Special Envoy and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka presented her report to the Secretary General on Friday with calls to the Government of Zimbabwe to stop the demolition of homes and…

HARARE -- The Zimbabwe government on Friday rejected a United Nations report condemning its controversial urban clean-up campaign, saying the report was biased and hostile to the southern African nation. But analysts and human rights activists in Harare welcomed the report saying…