Informes

JOHANNESBURG -- Three trucks transporting aid to Zimbabweans displaced during a controversial government clean-up operation are still held up in Johannesburg , South Africa after the Harare authorities demanded permits before allowing in the aid. Ron Steel, a spokesperson for…

Harare (dpa)- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe ruled out Monday talks with the leader of the main opposition party MDC. In a speech to mark Heroes' Day, a national holiday in remembrance of black nationalists killed during the 1970s guerrilla war against…

By Mordekai Musundire KARIBA, Zimbabwe, 8 August 2005 - It was a good day for Chipos Mafukidze, a 22-year-old mother of two. First, both her children received a vitamin A supplement. Then they were given a bed net to prevent…

HARARE - The Zimbabwe government plans to take full control of all schools including those owned by private firms, individuals or churches, according to a proposed new law. The draft law, now being reviewed by the parliamentary legal committee, will…

HARARE -- Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc yesterday reopened a peacekeeping training centre in Harare shut down four years ago after the main donor withdrew funding in protest. The centre was shut down in 2001 after Denmark which was…

JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa has provisionally agreed a US$500 million bailout for Zimbabwe, enough to clear its northern neighbour's debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and leave some change for Harare to buy critically needed food and fuel, authoritative…

HARARE -- Zimbabwean farmers, lawyers and human rights groups on Thursday told the parliamentary legal committee that plans by the government to ban citizens from contesting in the courts acquisition of their land by the state would effectively make…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 5 August (IRIN) The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) has called on the government to urgently produce a new voters' roll in the wake of its controversial cleanup…

HARARE - The World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday said it was "difficult and problematic" to raise relief for millions of hungry Zimbabweans because of Harare's failure to make a formal appeal for food aid. President Robert Mugabe last June…

CAPE TOWN - South Africa's cabinet on Wednesday agreed to offer a financial loan to Zimbabwe to avert economic meltdown in its troubled northern neighbour. South Africa's government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe yesterday told the Press that Pretoria's approach to the…