Informes

Sheryl Haw (Operations Director) Areas assessed: Mutoko: North, (Mudzi) Gokwe: North, North West Matabeleland Province: North and South Masivingo: South Gweru: Lower Gweru Harare: The destitute camps around Harare General Findings: There is a serious general food shortage of the staple maize meal that the community…

HARARE, Aug 27, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Meeting of health ministers from the southern African countries ended here on Tuesday afternoon, during which they examined the response of the health sector to the acute and large-scale humanitarian crisis…

Budget FY 2001 FY 2002 (est.) FY 2003 (request) Development Assistance & Child Survival $12.8 million $10.0 million $16.1 million (of which HIV/AIDS totals) ($ 5.9 million) ($ 7.5 million) ($12.0 million) Economic Support Funds $ 3.3 million $ 12.0 million TBD Total $16.1million $22.0 million $16.1million+ OBJECTIVES The objectives of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) program in…

Summary A recent foot and mouth outbreak in Midlands Province has dramatically increased the risk that the disease could spill into the export zone and Foot and Mouth disease-free zones in the three Mashonaland Provinces. Incidences of…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 August (IRIN) - The plight of thousands of farm workers in Zimbabwe continues to go unnoticed while the international media focuses on the eviction of white farmers, said the country's largest farm workers union on Thursday. Close to…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 August (IRIN) - South Africa and Botswana have denied they have signed up to a US plan to isolate Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, and said their policy was rather to influence Harare through dialogue. "There can never be…

Harare (dpa) - While queues lengthened for maize meal, sugar, cooking oil and other staples, Zimbabwe's Central Statistic Office Wednesday reported inflation had reached at all time high of 123.5 per cent. Increases in the prices of food and clothing were…

Mercy Corps staff see increasing signs of food shortages A food shortage crisis that has severely impacted families living in rural Zimbabwe is starting to have an effect in some of the country's cities as well, according to Mercy Corps…

Caroline Mafararikwa is 41 years old and lives in Masange in Manicaland. She has five children, three of them attend the local primary school, but her two youngest children, three-year-old Tinashe, and Tryfin, just one year old, are too…

Price of Basic Commodities Continues to Increase The Food Security Trends Report by the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe and FEWS NET indicated that since October 2001 the value of the CCZ Harare Low Income Earning households' expenditure…