Reports

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a donation of an additional 30,000 metric tons (MT) of food, valued at $12 million, to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The food contribution will…

JOHANNESBURG, 30 December (IRIN) - If last year Zimbabweans thought life could not get any tougher, 2003 disabused them of that faint hope. Ordinary people struggled to cope through interlinked humanitarian, economic and political crises that provided no let up, deepening…

Appeal Target: CHF 526,122 (USD 261,000, EUR 357,709) Period covered: May - October 2003 The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions…

Harare (dpa) - Zimbabwean health officials asked South African laboratories for help to investigate a suspected ebola case in the country's most popular tourist resort at Victoria Falls. Media reports quoted Health minister David Parirenyatwa as saying that an Angolan…

Rosemary is 21 months old. Her body is wasted and she lies motionless on the bed. Her small, lacklustre eyes seek reassurance from her grandmother, Museuu Gumbo, lying next to her. She and her twin brother, Previ, lost their…

JOHANNESBURG - More than 2.6 million people in Zimbabwe will face a bleak Christmas this year after having had their food rations halved because of insufficient donations from the international community, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said…

The three siblings have prepared their plot for the planting season. It is almost one acre and they are proud of their work. Still, they have not been able to plant the maize seeds they received from the Red…

Bulawayo, 19 December 2003 - The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) today announced that it is donating US$200,000 of food aid to needy communities in Harare and Bulawayo. With effect from today and until the end of February 2004, the food…

JOHANNESBURG, 18 December (IRIN) The ongoing lack of agricultural inputs and a new law that allows the government to "compulsorily acquire" farm equipment have been slammed by Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers Union (CFU). According to the newly gazetted Statutory Instrument, the government…

By Kristy Allen-Shirley Vulnerable children in Zimbabwe's capital Harare are benefiting from complementary feeding aimed at increasing their nutritional status and preventing the onset of chronic malnutrition. The C-SAFE daily provision of corn-soy-blend (CSB) is supplied to 1,274 children under…