Reports

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 2 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is now a "free man" after treason charges against him were dropped on Tuesday. The main opposition Movement…

HARARE - Zimbabwe's junior medical doctors are on strike demanding an 800 percent salary increment and an improvement in their conditions of service. The latest strike comes barely two months after another job action by junior doctors countrywide over fuel…

HARARE - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday said the government's withdrawal of treason charges against him was a ploy to divert attention away from worsening economic problems threatening the country with total collapse. Tsvangirai said President Robert Mugabe and…

HARARE - The Zimbabwe government last night said it would not bar South African churches from delivering aid to thousands of people displaced by its controversial urban clean-up exercise but accused the churches of pushing a political agenda under…

BULAWAYO - About 400 members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) activist group wearing black armbands on Monday marched through Zimbabwe's second largest city of Bulawayo protesting against human rights violations allegedly by President Robert Mugabe and his government. The…

JOHANNESBURG -- The South African Council of Churches (SACC) will today dispatch several trucks carrying aid for thousands of Zimbabweans displaced by President Robert Mugabe's controversial clean-up exercise. The churches say they will send about 6 000 blankets and 37 tonnes…

HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe on Sunday rejected United Nations (UN) calls for political dialogue in the country between his ruling ZANU PF party and main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party. Mugabe was addressing party supporters at Harare International…

New York, Aug 1 2005 - A senior United Nations human rights official has called for rapid action by the world body in conjunction with the Government of the southern African country to end the "ongoing violations of human…

Any visit to Zimbabwe by Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan should be carefully planned in order to achieve its main objectives of alleviating human suffering and addressing social, economic and political challenges, a UN spokesman said today. Mr. Annan has accepted…

By Carole Gombakomba Washington 01 August 2005 - Operation Murambatsvina has resurfaced in the southeastern town of Chiredzi, where police are said to have destroyed seven phone shops. Sources told VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the only phone…