Reports

(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…

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…

With reference to recent statements made by Zimbabwean officials and underlined by the local press on the occasion of the recent SADC Summit in Dar Es Salaam, according to which the so-called sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe by the EU…

BULAWAYO, 17 September (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's major fertiliser companies say they may not be able to supply the country with desperately needed agricultural inputs, unless government addresses problems such as the shortage of foreign currency. Production in Zimbabwe's agricultural sector hit…

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - India Tuesday donated 50,000 tonnes of rice to Zimbabwe to help feed millions of people facing food shortages in the country. The southern African country is one of six countries in the sub-region facing food shortages…

Geneva, September 16, 2003 - An estimated 5.5 million Zimbabweans will require food aid by January next year. These are the findings of the joint Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to six countries in the Southern Africa region…

The British Red Cross and Danish Red Cross have received £1.9 million from the EU to step up food distribution to those facing acute food shortages in Zimbabwe. The money will secure food aid for 29,000 people - mainly those…

Paris, 15th September 2003 - The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and ZimRights, its affiliate organization, unreservedly and vigorously condemn the closure of one of the few independent media in Zimbabwe, the Daily News. The newspaper was closed after…

JOHANNESBURG, 11 September (IRIN) - Relief assistance in Zimbabwe will be directed solely by the needs of the vulnerable, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Harare, J Victor Angelo, said in a statement. This follows news reports that a new government…