Reports

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations (UN) special envoy Anna Tibaijuka yesterday briefed the world body's Security Council behind closed doors on her scathing report on the housing demolitions in Zimbabwe. The briefing took place after a procedural ballot in which nine…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 28 July (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has scoffed at a government plea for international assistance to build houses for thousands of…

Despite calls on the Government of Zimbabwe from senior United Nations officials to stop demolishing housing, thousands of Zimbabweans lost their homes within 24 hours of the appeals and the increasing demand for assistance continues to outstrip the supply,…

HARARE - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz last month asked South African President Thabo Mbkei to consider financially bailing out Zimbabwe to underpin stability in a region still recovering from years of civil war in Angola and Mozambique, authoritative sources…

HARARE - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday called on the United Nations (UN) to send a special envoy to investigate human rights abuses by President Robert Mugabe and his government. Calling Zimbabwe a "criminal state," Tsvangirai said the world…

HARARE, Jul 27, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Department of Civil Protection of Zimbabwe will soon replace the 1989 Civil Protection Act with an Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management Act that will see the implementation of more elaborate…

By James Elder PORTA FARM, Zimbabwe, 27 July 2005 - Twenty-four hours after UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy on human settlements, Anna Tibaijuka, called for an immediate end to demolitions and evictions in Zimbabwe, thousands of people at Porta Farm…

The United Nations Special Envoy on housing evictions in Zimbabwe today briefed the Security Council on her two-week visit to the southern African country where the demolition of housing and markets have left some 700,000 people without homes or…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 26 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - As Zimbabwe faces international rebuke for its controversial campaign to rid urban areas of illegal settlements, housing experts say large-scale forced evictions are…

HARARE - The Zimbabwe government will enact new and tougher legislation to govern the operations of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) once it has finished passing into law a proposed constitutional amendment Bill that it considers more urgent, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa…