Rapports

HARARE, 15 November (IRIN) - The impact of Zimbabwe's controversial fast-track land reform programme has rippled through the economy, but it has been the country's once robust agro-industries that have been the hardest hit. The take-over and breaking up of…

Leading international aid organisation Plan has signed a $12 million agreement with the World Food Program to provide food resources to 200,000 people in its famine-affected communities in southern Africa. The agreement was signed recently after a period of negotiation between…

Harare, dpa - Starvation is accelerating across Zimbabwe and local grain production for next year's harvest is likely to meet only half of the demand, the United Nations warned here Friday. The latest ''humanitarian situation report'' on Zimbabwe by the…

JOHANNESBURG, 15 November (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance Herbert Murerwa admitted that Zimbabwe's economy required urgent corrective action to avert further deterioration when he tabled his budget for 2003 on Thursday. In his budget speech Murerwa said output had declined…

JOHANNESBURG, 14 November (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Thursday said it would continue to challenge the results of the March presidential election despite losing a court appeal for a computerised list of the voters' roll. "We…

By Rainer Lang=A0 Gutu Province, November 13, 2002 The three young boys are resting in the shade of a small tree after a long and hard day's work as farm laborers on Muungani farm in Gutu Province, southern Zimbabwe. =A0 Late…

Consultative process on humanitarian issues Government Ministers, the UN Country Team and donor representatives met in the office of the UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator to discuss priority issues regarding humanitarian assistance. Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social…

Agnes van Ardenne, the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, is "seriously disappointed" with the results of the two-day conference between EU ministers and ministers from the 14-member-country Southern African Development Community (SADC). Meeting in the Mozambican capital Maputo, the EU and…

JOHANNESBURG, 8 November (IRIN) - The European Union (EU) this week accused Zimbabwe's ruling party of using food aid as a political weapon against opposition supporters. Bertel Haarder, European affairs minister of Denmark which holds the EU presidency, told Reuters:…

HARARE, Nov 8, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) Participants at a biotechnology workshop in Zimbabwe have challenged local scientists to produce genetically modified products to avoid controversy about foreign foods. Participants at the two-day workshop that ended here on Friday said since…