Reports

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…

(New York: 18 September 2003) - In Zimbabwe UN Humanitarian agencies are stepping up operations to address food shortages and their underlying causes. The UN has also identified the need to strengthen a national immunization program, which has been affected…

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…

Humanitarian Assistance Modalities The UN Resident/Humanitarian Co-ordinator issued the statement given below on humanitarian assistance modalities in Zimbabwe. The statement, issued on Wednesday, 10 September, was developed from a series of meetings held between the UN, Government,…

Zimbabwe remains gripped by a humanitarian, economic and political crisis. It is a challenging context. There is considerable humanitarian need and that is expected to increase to an estimated 5.5m in need of food aid between now and March…