Rapports

Summary The total area planted to all crops in 2001/02 season is estimated at 2.4 million hectares. Although seed sales indicate that a total of 1.7 million hectares potentially could have been planted to maize, because of…

HIGHLIGHTS Significantly below-normal rainfall affected most of Botswana and western Zimbabwe from the month of December to February. Rain continues in the northeastern sector. Normal to above normal rainfall is expected for northern sector and Island States. Central parts of…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Despite broad international condemnation and a tremendous thirst among the people of Zimbabwe for change, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government succeeded in systematically manipulating the March 2002 election process to ensure another…

HARARE, Mar 21, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Zimbabwean government is considering to import more maize to take the nation to the harvest in 2003, said an official on Thursday. Joan Mtukwa, acting chief executive of the Grain Marketing…

JOHANNESBURG, 20 March (IRIN) - The persecution of opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters in Zimbabwe has continued following President Robert Mugabe's election victory, IRIN was told on Wednesday. Francis Lovemore, medical director of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Amani Trust,…

President Mugabe's land-grab campaign again turned violent over the weekend as a white farmer was killed. By Jacqui Goddard | Special to The Christian Science Monitor HARARE, ZIMBABWE - They called him "father," a white man who saw no racial boundaries…

Summary Government has declared the 2001/2002 farming season an agricultural drought year owing to the continued dry weather conditions. In addition to staple cereal crops wilting, alternative food crops, such as sweet potatoes, have not been planted due to the…

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * 13 March 2002 AFR 46/021/2002 45/02 Amnesty International is gravely concerned about the high risk of violence in the aftermath of the elections held on 9, 10 and 11 March 2002, especially…

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * 12 March 2002 AFR 46/017/2002 44/02 The government of Zimbabwe should immediately and unconditionally release more than 1400 people, most of them polling agents and civil society election observers, who were arrested…

Harare/Brussels, 11 March 2002: Although the result of Zimbabwe's presidential election is not expected to be announced for another two or three days, all indications are that the victor should be the Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC) Morgan Tsvangirai. Pre-election…