Reports

With a United Nations report out today saying the Zimbabwean Government has evicted 700,000 people from urban housing, the UN humanitarian aid chief said the country's emergency is complex and also includes high unemployment, widespread food insecurity and 25 per…

Instead of apportioning blame, the international community had a duty to stand together with the Government and people of Zimbabwe to assist that tragic situation on the ground, Anna Tibaijuka, Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BULAWAYO, 21 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Zimbabwean police on Thursday forcibly removed hundreds of homeless people from churches in Bulawayo and banned religious groups from providing humanitarian assistance to…

HARARE, Jul 21, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Zimbabwe government has received the report on the country's demolition campaign compiled by Anna Tibaijuka, the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy on Human Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe. The United Nations…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 21 July (IRIN) - The physical evidence of the scale of destruction in Zimbabwe's informal settlements is plain to see: row upon row of what were once…

BULAWAYO - The Zimbabwe government has banned the church from Helensvale Farm holding camp for Bulawayo families displaced by the government's clean-up campaign. Church leaders, who had sheltered the about 300 homeless people at their churches before their relocation to Helensvale…

The Government of Zimbabwe acknowledges receipt, on the 21st of July 2005, of the Report of UN Secretary General's Special Envoy, Mrs. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, following her fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe undertaken between 26 June and 8 July 2005.…

Bulawayo. Baton-wielding police in full anti-riot gear descended on a number of churches across the city last night and into the early hours of this morning to forcibly remove several hundred homeless victims of Operation Murambatsvina still sheltering in the…

HARARE, Jul 21, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Zimbabwean government is to close camps where families affected by a recent mass demolition campaign had been settled by the end of the week, and relocation has already started, a…

HARARE - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has set up an emergency US$100 000 fund to help Zimbabwe's informal sector revive businesses destroyed by the government's controversial urban clean-up campaign. An official of UNDP Zimbabwe, Katherine Anderson, said a more…