Reports

World Vision Zimbabwe's child supplementary feeding program (CSFP) has recorded a slight decline in the Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates in operational areas. The decline in the GAM rates has been attributed to the nutrition interventions (general food aid (GFA)…

BULAWAYO, 2 October (IRIN) - Officials announced this week that malaria had claimed the lives of 786 people between January and the end of September, and warned that critical anti-malaria outreach programmes may not be sufficiently funded. This follows reports…

In Zimbabwe, where tensions between the ruling party, Zanu-PF, and opposition party, MDC, are running high, Oxfam America partner Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust (ZIMCET) is opening dialogues between local representatives of both parties and forging peace- one community at a…

BULAWAYO, 30 September (IRIN) - The announcement this week by Shangani Hospital in Matabeleland South that it would no longer admit patients, because it ran out of food a fortnight ago, is further evidence of Zimbabwe's deepening economic and…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background: The assessment was carried out in an environment with economic conditions worsening, the country experiencing food shortages due to droughts and other factors and hyperinflation standing at 455.6 percent in September 2003. Survey Design: A livelihoods based structured questionnaires…

AND MORE UN Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan appointed Zambia's former President, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, as co-patron of the United Nations Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). Inflation in Zimbabwe hit 426.6 per cent in August, according to the government's…

Harare, 24th of September 2003 - In an effort to step up assistance for the population of Zimbabwe during the actual shortage of staple food and basic agricultural inputs, EuronAid, an association of European NGOs involved in food aid/food…

JOHANNESBURG, 23 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The rising the number of street children in Zimbabwe was an indication that the ongoing humanitarian crisis, coupled with the current economic decline, has had an extremely negative effect on the country's children. The…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 September (IRIN) Zimbabwe's health care sector has been badly affected by chronic shortages of essential medical supplies. Last Thursday Bulawayo's major state hospitals announced that they were suspending medical operations for all "non-life threatening" ailments because of a critical…

United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organizations are stepping up operations to address food shortages and their underlying causes in Zimbabwe as whole communities have exhausted stocks long before the next harvest, according to the latest update released today. The UN…