Informes

DAR ES SALAAM, 26 August (IRIN) - Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries closed their 23rd annual summit on Tuesday united in their support for Zimbabwe and clear in their call for sanctions on the country to be lifted. In…

JOHANNESBURG, 26 August (IRIN) - The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has warned the government that time is running out for a negotiated settlement to the country's political crisis. MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's spokesman, William Bango, told IRIN on Tuesday that…

JOHANNESBURG, 25 August (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean government has given an assurance that the World Food Programme (WFP) will remain in control of humanitarian food distribution, despite a controversial new policy directive issued by the government this month, UN Humanitarian…

By Manoah Esipisu DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) - Some seven million people in southern Africa, most in Zimbabwe, face famine without international food handouts, officials said on Sunday. That despite Zambia and Malawi -- two of the six countries that…

AI Index: AFR 46/027/2003 (Public) On the eve of the annual Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Tanzania, Amnesty International is calling on SADC leaders to jointly and publicly express their concern regarding Zimbabwe's deepening human rights…

Briefly . . . Since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union -- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government has used its anti-colonial legacy and its role in the war of liberation to build a nationalist…

World Vision Zimbabwe recently held a meeting with officials from the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, a group of church leaders, to discuss food security in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. The Relief Director, Jean Claude Mukadi and his deputy Zvidzai Maburutse…

JOHANNESBURG, 20 August (IRIN) - Aid groups in Zimbabwe were awaiting clarification of a directive issued by the government that would see the distribution of international food aid shift from relief agencies to local government and village authorities. The UN…

DAE ES SALAAM, 19 August (IRIN) - HIV/AIDS, trade-distorting subsidies and regional food security will feature high on the agenda of the upcoming meetings of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the Tanzanian commercial capital, Dar es Salaam,…

Summary The previous ZIMVAC estimates of food aid required and people needing emergency food assistance between April 2003 and March 2004 have been revised upward to 5 million people and 465,000 MT following the increase in the…