Reports

HARARE -- Zimbabwe police yesterday destroyed an industrial and office block in Harare's red-light Kopje district barely three days after the government announced it was temporarily halting its controversial urban clean-up exercise. The office complex at the corner of Speke Avenue…

BULAWAYO -- More than 300 people, who were being sheltered by churches in Bulawayo after their homes were demolished by the government, have since last week been moved to a state holding camp at Helensvale farm, 20 km north-west…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 19 July (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean government has stepped up efforts to train more primary healthcare workers amid growing concern over deteriorating healthcare delivery in rural areas. According to…

Zimbabwe: Caring for Zimbabwe's Homeless UMCOR is joining other faith-based humanitarian agencies to provide basic necessities to hundreds of thousands of people who were were driven from their homes in an urban clean-up campaign. This comes during the country's coldest…

JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi is expected in Pretoria today to press for a massive $1 billion bailout from the South African government to avert a looming economic and humanitarian disaster in the crisis-sapped country. Mumbengegwi is expected…

HARARE - New Zealand says it will step up a diplomatic campaign to drag President Mugabe to the International Criminal Court for serious human rights abuses. Foreign affairs minister Phil Goff said New Zealand was considering investigating a case that…

SG/SM/10007, AFR/1214 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is increasingly concerned by the human rights and humanitarian impact of the recent demolitions of what the Government of Zimbabwe has called illegal…

MASHONALAND WEST - President Robert Mugabe at the weekend urged youths of his ruling ZANU PF party to fight back should the opposition become violent. Addressing about 10 000 supporters at Mwami rural business centre, about 240 km north-west of…

Harare (dpa) - A delegation of South African churchmen arrived in Zimbabwe Monday on a three-day follow-up visit to assess the relief needs of churches in Zimbabwe following a controversial government "clean-up'' campaign, a member of the delegation said…

The EU agreed that the situation in Zimbabwe is of deepest concern. The Council recalled that it has repeatedly urged the Government of Zimbabwe to take effective measures to improve the situation. The Council expressed deep concern that there…