Reports

More than 60 percent of the population in Zimbabwe's western region of Hwange require food relief. WFP's Richard Lee visited the district of Chidobe and found that the near collapse of the tourist trade in nearby Victoria Falls has…

HARARE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe on Monday impounded a 30 tonne cargo of food aid at the South African border because the agency importing it had not obtained a permit to bring it into the country, an aid…

Covering 4 Food Economy Zones: Highveld Prime Communal Mashonaland "Fast Track" Resettlement Mashonaland Commercial Farm Workers North Great Dyke Informal Mining Communities Save the Children (UK) - Zimbabwe Country Programme - August, 2002 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Executive Summary Introduction Assessment Purpose & Methodology FEZ 1: Highveld…

Office of Global Programs, AFRICA Issue 2, August 2002 The Issue "Throughout the region people are walking a thin tightrope between life and death. The combination of widespread hunger, chronic poverty and the HIV/AIDS pandemic is devastating and may soon lead to…

Under Sec. of State Larson Discusses U.S. Food Aid, Johannesburg Summit The hunger crisis in southern Africa is "very much" on the mind of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the…

Nairobi/Brussels, 29 August 2002: The ZANU-PF government of President Robert Mugabe is carrying out a policy of selective starvation against its political enemies. The denial of food to opposition strongholds has replaced overt violence as the government's principal tool of…

World Relief President Clive Calver heads to Zimbabwe Monday, September 4, to oversee the organization's response to the famine facing Zimbabwe and other Southern African nations. World Relief disaster response team is tackling the food crisis throughout Southern Africa by…

WHO Director General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland on Tuesday in Harare appealed to donor governments and external sources of assistance to respond "promptly and generously " to the humanitarian crisis facing southern Africa. "People's survival and sustainable development are at stake.…

SG/SM/8345, AFR/457 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: As you know, I am very worried about the deteriorating food situation in southern Africa. The United Nations system is already fully engaged in a comprehensive…

Sheryl Haw (Operations Director) Areas assessed: Mutoko: North, (Mudzi) Gokwe: North, North West Matabeleland Province: North and South Masivingo: South Gweru: Lower Gweru Harare: The destitute camps around Harare General Findings: There is a serious general food shortage of the staple maize meal that the community…