Rapports

By Stella Mapenzauswa HARARE, Oct 11 (Reuters) - South Africa's Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma pledged her government's support for crisis-stricken Zimbabwe on Friday as a U.S. aid official warned of a looming food disaster in the country. ''The…

Programme Update Health The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare organized a meeting to review emergency preparedness and response activities. Representatives from UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) attended the meeting, along with Emergency Preparedness and Response officers from the Ministry…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said malaria cases in the country had declined this year because of drought, which deprived mosquitoes their ideal breeding ground. But he said due to global warming, the malaria situation in the…

Appeal Target: US$ 4,671,000Balance Requested from ACT Network: US$ 3,295,810 Geneva, 9 October 2002 Dear Colleagues, The revision of the appeal affects only the Lutheran Development Services programs. There are two reasons for the revision, the first being the…

By Paul Ejime, PANA Correspondent Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe opened the 52nd session of the World Health Organisation Regional Committee in Harare Tuesday, touching on Africa's health problems as he argued for his government's controversial land…

HARARE, Oct 7, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) Zimbabwe's National AIDS Council ( NAC) said here Monday that an additional 7.6 million US dollars would be disbursed throughout the country to alleviate the worsening crisis as a result of the…

BALTIMORE, October 6, 2002 - World Relief President Clive Calver recently returned from Southern Africa where a severe drought and questionable government policies have crippled the food supply throughout the region. "These people here have absolutely nothing to eat, and…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 3 October (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform programme has ignored the critical role played by the commercial farming sector in the economy, analysts and farmers have warned. "President…

JOHANNESBURG, 2 October (IRIN) - The Zimbabwe government's HIV prevention mother-to-child transmission programme (PMTCT) has come under fire from AIDS activists over the slow pace of implementation. But government officials have warned that there was more to the programme than…

By Stella Mapenzauswa HARARE, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A U.S.-based famine unit has warned Zimbabwe's food crisis is deepening and millions more people face starvation unless they receive urgent aid and the government eases its monopoly on grain trade. Drought,…