Zimbabwe
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said Thursday that the international community needs to monitor what is happening in Zimbabwe to prevent a humanitarian crisis. International Development Secretary Clare Short, speaking to BBC radio from an African regional conference in Sudan, said: ''Zimbabwe…
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Recurrent drought and flooding in parts of Zimbabwe during the year have resulted in Zimbabwe facing food shortages. World Vision's Southern Africa Regional office, the Africa Relief office and the Food Resource Management Group are together working with WV…
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JOHANNESBURG, 14 December (IRIN) - Opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained in a dawn raid and released without charge on Friday as the ruling ZANU-PF opened its annual conference, to prepare for presidential elections…
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HARARE, 14 December (IRIN) - Lot Hove paces up and down the hall at the government-run employment exchange in downtown Harare with a newspaper in his hand. He is one of several hundred job seekers in the place. Hove is…
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Background Summary In February 2000, veterans from the liberation war of the 1970s took over hundreds of white owned farms in Zimbabwe’s countryside. These land seizures took the form of mass squatting as well as violence against…
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JOHANNESBURG, 13 December (IRIN) - The Zimbabwe Law Society (ZLS) warned in its annual report that 2001 has seen a growing atmosphere of lawlessness in the country. Sternford Moyo, president of the ZLS said: "It is with some sadness that…
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - The UN World Food Programme today urgently appealed for US$54 million to feed more than half a million people in Zimbabwe, whose lives are seriously threatened by food shortages which become more widespread each day. On Tuesday,…
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JOHANNESBURG, 13 December (IRIN) - Politics, rather than land, was at the heart of Zimbabwe's crisis, and its resolution would be based on international pressure headed by regional leaders, British Foreign Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Baroness Amos said on…
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JOHANNESBURG, 13 December (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an urgent appeal for US $54 million to feed more than 550,000 rural Zimbabweans faced with severe food shortages. WFP regional director for eastern and southern Africa Judith…
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LONDON (Reuters) - Commonwealth ministers will meet in London in about two weeks to discuss possible sanctions against Zimbabwe, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Wednesday. Straw told parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee that the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group…
