Rapports

Programme Update Health In order to scale up the Household and Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) programme within the context of the current emergency, 8 Provincial Multi-sectoral Core Teams of Facilitators (57 participants in all) were trained in IMCI. The…

A troubled economy threatens to cause the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe to deepen, the United Nations Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Support Office for southern Africa warned today. By the end of the year, Zimbabwe's real gross domestic product (GDP) is expected…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Thailand and Zimbabwe Friday concluded a fertiliser trade agreement, under which the southern African country will immediately start importing the commodity, which is in short supply, from the Asian nation. Zimbabwe has pinned its hopes for…

Cholera is emerging as the latest health threat to 14.4 million people who are already facing severe hunger because of the food crisis across southern Africa, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warned today. In the…

By Manoah Esipisu MAPUTO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The European Union accused Zimbabwe's government on Thursday of using foreign food aid as a political weapon against opponents of President Robert Mugabe. "We would like to strongly react against the fact that…

Ben Nicholson (Programme Coordinator) It's been a week of little progress here in Zimbabwe. Due to the fact that Medair has not yet been granted registration, we are unable to commence implementation of our own programmes. However, we have been…

HARARE, Nov 6, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The bread shortage covering the most parts of Zimbabwe is set to worsen as one of the major suppliers has closed three plants. Burombo Mudhumo, the Managing Director for Bakers Inn, said…

By Jim Fisher-Thompson, Washington File Staff Writer Washington -- Impending famine in Zimbabwe, a result of the disastrous farm policies of President Robert Mugabe, is being compounded by his ZANU PF movement's partisan distribution of food donated by the international community,…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 4 November (IRIN) - Among the initial goals of the land reform programme in Zimbabwe was the resettlement of people from densely populated communal rural areas to…

JOHANNESBURG, 29 October (IRIN) - The impasse between striking teachers in Zimbabwe and the government over better pay continued on Tuesday as a further 230 teachers were served with letters of suspension. So far close to 700 teachers have been ordered…