Rapports

To alleviate food insecurity in urban centres, a new USAID pilot project - Market Assistance Pilot Program (MAPP) was launched in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. The MAPP program, which is being implemented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in collaboration…

October 16, 2003, Baltimore, MD - With World Food Day drawing attention to the plight of the hungry worldwide, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is stepping up food assistance efforts in Zimbabwe's increasingly vulnerable urban areas, as the HIV/AIDS pandemic continues…

Larry Thompson just returned from an assessment mission to South Africa and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is in an economic freefall that has already forced more than a million people to migrate to neighboring countries in search of jobs. Several hundred thousand…

Sida has today decided to grant just over EUR 5 million for food distribution in southern Africa in answer to the UN's annual appeal. The situation in southern Africa has deteriorated dramatically, especially for the starving millions in Zimbabwe…

BULAWAYO, 13 October (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's major farmer unions have called on the government and business sector to establish an agricultural export retention scheme to act as a reserve of foreign currency to procure inputs at the beginning of…

Summary The total staple cereal gap for 2003/04 marketing season (1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004) remains high at about 738,464MT, of which 671,424MT is maize. Food aid and commercial imports achieved by mid September 2003 have covered only…

JOHANNESBURG, 7 October (IRIN) - There's still time to "prevent the twin spectres of starvation and destitution" from occurring in Zimbabwe, said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in a plea for more assistance from donors. UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Zimbabwe, J. Victor…

BULAWAYO, 6 October (IRIN) - Economists warned of fresh shortages of basic commodities and an expanding parallel market as the Zimbabwean government announced plans for new price controls across all sectors of production, to take effect within the next…

BULAWAYO, 3 October (IRIN) - Plans by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) to disconnect water services to all towns owing it money could trigger widespread outbreaks of disease, which the health ministry may not have the capacity to…

GoZ sign Memorandum of Understanding with World Food Programme WFP and the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the WFP Emergency Operation (EMOP 10290). The MoU, signed on 25 September 2003,…