Rapports

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The economic meltdown, government-created food crisis, and deepening state-sponsored violence that have plagued Zimbabwe in the year since President Robert Mugabe's ruling party rigged the presidential election continue to point in one ominous direction: potential state…

by Solveig Olafsdottir in Harare HIV/AIDS has stripped Gladys Sananguray of her social status. When her husband died of AIDS in 1999 and she herself tested positive, Gladys and her children were thrown out of their home in the Zimbabwean…

HIV/AIDS is tearing Zimbabwean society apart, as WFP's Benson Gono discovered when he met Mamhlope Nyathi, an 81-year-old woman in Nkayi district forced to care for five of her grandchildren orphaned by the virus. Dakamela Ward, Nkayi, March 6 -…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The government of the Gulf State of Oman Wednesday donated 10,000 tons of food, worth two million US dollars to drought victims in Zimbabwe. An estimated 7.8 million people in Zimbabwe, roughly half the country's population,…

Forty-three families in Insiza District in Matebeleland South, 100 kilometres south of Bulawayo, are set to benefit from a ZW$30 million irrigation scheme set up by World Vision Zimbabwe. The Zhulube Irrigation Scheme, which is nearing completion, is going to…

By Jan Raath, dpa Harare (dpa) - President Robert Mugabe's government Wednesday announced a new plan meant to rescue the country's disintegrating economy. The 49-page document makes the government's first acknowledgment of the severity of the country's economic dislocation, marked…

JOHANNESBURG, 3 March (IRIN) - Flooding last week in the northern parts of food insecure Zimbabwe may have worsened the prospects for recovery, Save the Children warned on Monday. Heavy flooding affected some 6,000 people in the Muzarabani district, with…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Britain Friday donated 5.25 million pounds Sterling (US$8.2 million) to the World Food Programme (WFP) for drought food relief in Zimbabwe. An estimated 7.8 million people in the southern African country are facing food shortages due…

JOHANNESBURG, 28 February (IRIN) - An assessment to determine the number of farmworkers and resettled farmers in Zimbabwe in need of food aid is currently underway following reports that this sector may have to be added to the list…

Summary While the food security situation is improving in some isolated rural areas of the northern provinces following increased food aid assistance from the humanitarian community and early consumption of the current season's produce, the food security…