Rapports

The Catholic aid agency CAFOD says more aid is needed to feed thousands of vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. In areas such as Matabeleland the agency says it has only around ten days' worth of food left to feed youngsters…

Most of Zimbabwe Faces Food Shortages Preliminary estimates put the food insecure population in Zimbabwe at three million by June 2002. The map below shows areas of Zimbabwe that are likely to suffer food shortages in the…

Most of Zimbabwe Faces Food Shortages Preliminary estimates put the food insecure population in Zimbabwe at three million by June 2002. The map shows areas of Zimbabwe that are likely to suffer food shortages in the 2002/03…

Food Security The 2001/02 maize harvest has been estimated at below 600,000MT, a 41 percent decrease from last year, but 66 percent more than the 1991/92 harvest, which was one of the worst drought years in the 1990s. Given the…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - For the third time in two weeks, the Zimbabwe government Friday listed more white-owned farms for seizure to resettle landless peasants under its agrarian reform programme. The Ministry of Agriculture gave notices of compulsory acquisition to 170…

AFR 46/032/2002, 59/02 State-sponsored militia are continuing to carry out assaults and acts of sexual violence in reprisals against the opposition. Militias are also controlling the distribution of food supplies in rural areas and it is feared that this is…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's embattled white farmers said Wednesday invasions and seizures of their farms by landless peasants had risen since last month's presidential election in which President Robert Mugabe, who backs the land grabs, retained power. A spokeswoman for…

Members of Oxfam International, who have worked in Zimbabwe for over 20 years, today expressed their deep concern regarding food insecurity and poverty in that country, particularly given the political tensions in the aftermath of the elections. As politicians, civil…

Summary The Southern African Development Community intends to revive the 1992 regional task force on food relief efforts. It would review the institutional and operational structures developed and implemented in 1992 and identify how they could be resuscitated to address the…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 27 March (IRIN) - With inflation topping 100 percent, the local currency tumbling and over three million people in danger of going hungry, local industrialists and analysts are…