Informes

JOHANNESBURG, 8 August (IRIN) - Twenty-three white farmers were charged in a Zimbabwe court on Wednesday with inciting public violence following clashes on a white-owned farm occupied by self-styled war veterans and ruling ZANU-PF party supporters. Tension was high in…

SUMMARY In May-June 2001 FEWS Net, with support from its implementing partner, the Food Economy Group (F.E.G.), and in close collaboration with the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe, conducted an assessment of urban vulnerability in greater Harare. The purpose of the exercise…

Summary Zimbabwe's wheat stocks were estimated at 116,000 MT at the end of May, of which 81,000 MT were official stocks. Wheat consumption has gone down since the two consecutive 20 percent bread price increases. At an average consumption rate…

JOHANNESBURG, 19 July (IRIN) - As the Zimbabwe government slowly begins to face the reality that in six months time the country could run out of food, UNDP told IRIN that donors might support a UN-administered food aid initiative. "A…

JOHANNESBURG, 18 July (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's slapping of price controls this week on maize is likely to push farmers away from growing the staple next season, when President Robert Mugabe faces a highly-charged election battle, economists told IRIN. Concerned over…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION Zimbabwe is in a state of free fall. It is embroiled in the worst political and economic crisis of its twenty-year history as an independent state. The crisis has negatively affected virtually every aspect of the…

Brussels/Harare, 13 July 2001: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe continues the repression and misgovernment that is destroying one of the most prosperous and promising countries in Africa. But in a new report published today, the International Crisis Group spells out a…

JOHANNESBURG, 11 July (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean government has set up an inter-ministerial task force to ensure food security in the country and to advise the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) on the way forward, the official newspaper 'The Herald'…

Summary The Ministry of Agriculture has revised the maize harvest upward by 1 percent to 1.506 million MT from the National Crop Forecasting Committee original estimate of 1.476 million MT. Low carryover stocks of 431,000 MT and the…

BINDURA, 5 June (IRIN) - Rose Dube has already lost her job and stands to lose her home within the next eight weeks. She smiles nervously when asked what will become of her two children. Rose once worked on…