Rapports

Barely 24 hours after the police had forcibly removed the homeless victims of Mugabe's so-called "clean-up" operation from the churches where they had taken refuge in Bulawayo to a holding camp just outside the city boundaries, the police have…

MUTARE - The Zimbabwe government has suspended the mayor of the country's fourth largest city of Mutare whom it had publicly accused of improper conduct for telling a United Nations envoy that the government's clean-up exercise had caused untold…

NEW YORK -- The United Nations (UN) has given Zimbabwe 48 hours to respond to issues raised in a report by the world body's special envoy who assessed Harare's controversial urban clean-up campaign earlier this month. The report, compiled by…

BULAWAYO - Four clergymen were arrested on Wednesday night as the police raided churches in Bulawayo and forcibly removed at least 500 people who had sought shelter there after their homes were demolished by the government. The 500 homeless people…

SG/SM/10012, AFR/1219, HAB/199 Following is the statement of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, after receiving the report of his Special Envoy to Zimbabwe: I have received the report of my Special Envoy on Human Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe, Mrs. Anna K.…

HARARE - Zimbabwe will beginning September sell fuel to motorists in hard currency in a desperate measure to end a six-year fuel shortage that worsened in recent months, almost bringing the crisis-hit country to a halt. In a monetary policy…

Harare (dpa) - The Zimbabwe government is studying a United Nations report on a controversial government campaign of shack and home demolitions and President Robert Mugabe will respond to it at an "appropriate time", it was reported Friday. Zimbabwe's representative…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 22 July (IRIN) Despite a UN report condemning the Zimbabwean government's programme of forced evictions that has affected 700,000 people, Local Government and Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo has…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BULAWAYO, 22 July (IRIN) - Armed soldiers and Zimbabwean police on Friday blocked the road to Hellensvale, a transit camp north of the second city, Bulawayo, as authorities…

New York (dpa) - An estimated 79,500 people suffering from HIV/AIDS are among the 700,000 who became homeless because of Zimbabwe's demolition of squatters's dwellings, the United Nations said Friday. By displacing those with HIV/AIDS, the government in Harare has shut…