Zimbabwe
Addis Ababa, 29 June 2005 - H.E. Alpha Oumar Konare, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, has designated Commissioner Bahame Tom Nyanduga, a member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Special Rapporteur, Responsible for Refugees, Asylum…
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By Ndimyake Mwakalyelye Washington, 29 June 2005 - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's announcement that Harare has earmarked Z$3 trillion dollars to build homes for those displaced by the state clean-up operation has met with widespread skepticism. Economists and political analysts…
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy, evaluating the humanitarian aspects of the recent evictions of some 200,000 poor people from illegal housing in Zimbabwe, met President Robert Mugabe in the southern African country today and got the green light…
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Harare, 29 June 2005 - Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy evaluating the humanitarian aspects of the recent evictions of some 200,000 poor people in Zimbabwe, on Wednesday met President Robert Mugabe and got the green light…
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Harare (dpa) - A U.N. special envoy on housing held talks with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Wednesday to discuss a controversial wave of shack demolitions that has left at least 300,000 people homeless, officials said. Anna Tibaijuka, the head of…
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H.E. Mr Godfrey Magwenzi Charge d'Affaires of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the UK and Ireland Zimbabwe House 429 Strand London WC2R 0QE UK Fax: 0207 379 1167 Subject: Forced evictions and loss of homes in Zimbabwe Your Excellency, As Irish and…
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Harare, Zimbabwe (dpa) - More than 100 families made homeless by a police raid on shacks were moved Tuesday from a government holding camp in Harare to rural areas, state television reported. The families were the first to be moved out…
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By James Elder HARARE, Zimbabwe, 28 June 2005 Thirteen-year-old Rose was at school when government bulldozers came to her house. By the time she got home, they'd flattened it. "About a kilometre from home I started seeing all these destroyed homes…
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[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 28 June (IRIN) - At least 14 people have died and 203 have been hospitalised in eastern Zimbabwe as authorities battle to control a cholera outbreak that…
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Dispatched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to evaluate the recent evictions of some 200,000 poor people from illegal housing in Zimbabwe, the chief of United Nations agency for human settlements expects President Robert Mugabe to receive her within 24 hours,…
