Rapports

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BULAWAYO, 22 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean government has outlawed urban farming, sparking fears of a deepening food crisis, as poor families have relied on the…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 22 June (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has renewed calls for a "political solution" to the escalating crisis in the wake of the…

HARARE, Jun 21, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A UN special envoy will shortly arrive in Zimbabwe to study the impact of the ongoing cleanup operation, said a statement issued Tuesday by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). According to…

Harare (dpa) - Police in Zimbabwe will no longer allow people living in cities to grow their own crops, state radio reported on Tuesday, as an international food monitoring body warned that the food situation was worsening in urban…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 21 June (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is to send a special envoy to assess the situation in Zimbabwe, where a government crackdown on informal settlements and…

SG/SM/9943, AFR/1197, HAB/197 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General has appointed Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, as his Special Envoy for Human Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe. President Robert…

On 25 May, Africa Day, the Government of Zimbabwe began an operation labelled "Operation Murambatsvina". While Government has translated this to mean "Operation Clean-up", the more literal translation of "murambatsvina" is "getting rid of the filth". The operation has continued…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS The poor 2004/05 agricultural season, coupled with import limitations and in-country distribution problems, is limiting staple cereal availability in both urban and rural areas of Zimbabwe. Other basic food stuffs, such as cooking oil,…

Sean McCormack, Spokesman Washington, DC June 16, 2005 More than 250,000 people have been made homeless as a result of "Operation Restore Order," the Government of Zimbabwe's ongoing campaign to destroy informal dwellings and businesses in Zimbabwe's cities. The United States condemns…

Harare (dpa) - Bread queues have resurfaced in many parts of Harare after police destroyed makeshift shops as part of an ongoing blitz on illegal structures, the Daily Mirror reported on Tuesday. Many Zimbabweans living in low-income suburbs depended on tuckshops…