Reports

JOHANNESBURG, 28 January (IRIN) - European Union (EU) foreign ministers on Monday agreed in principal to impose targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe if Harare failed to allow an EU election observer mission into the country by 3 February and lift…

AFR 46/003/2002 12/02 Baseless allegations against a human rights organization printed in Zimbabwe's state-controlled daily newspaper signal the newest phase in the government's campaign to undermine civil society, Amnesty International said today. On 17 and 18 January 2002, the Zimbabwe Herald newspaper…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's state-run grain procurement agency said Sunday it had started importing maize from Argentina and the US to avert starvation in the country. Grain Marketing Board (GMB) operations director Justin Mutasa said the agency had switched…

SG/SM/8100 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General welcomes the urgent attention given to the situation in Zimbabwe by the Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) held in Malawi on 14…

UN Special Envoys to revisit Zimbabwe Mr. James Morris, Executive Director of the World Food Programme and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa, and Mr Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in…

JOHANNESBURG, 11 January (IRIN) - The South African presidency has condemned the public support Zimbabwe's military leadership expressed on Wednesday for President Robert Mugabe's re-election bid. Defence force chief General Vitalis Zvinavashe told reporters in Harare on Wednesday that security force…

INTRODUCTION Since the intensification of Zimbabwe's political, economic and humanitarian crisis following defeat of a government-sponsored constitution in a national referendum nearly two years ago, the International Crisis Group (ICG) has documented the escalation of state-sponsored violence and erosion of the…

By Gareth Jones BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union appealed to Zimbabwe on Friday to halt political violence, remove curbs on the media and allow free elections, but the country's foreign minister dismissed the threat of EU economic sanctions. As…

JOHANNESBURG, 10 January (IRIN) - Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU) begin "consultations" in Brussels on Friday over the deteriorating political and human rights situation in the country. Zimbabwe has been summoned under the terms of the Cotonou agreement - which…

JOHANNESBURG, 10 January (IRIN) - Zimbabwean journalists plan to defy proposed legislation that will severely curtail independent reporting in the run-up to presidential elections in March. After a meeting of journalists on Thursday, Abel Mutsakani, head of the Independent Journalists…