Reports

DURBAN, 28 November (IRIN) - A variety of issues - such as the controversy regarding genetically modified (GM) food aid - have created challenges for logisticians working to keep the relief pipeline for Southern Africa open. Poul Skov is the…

CONCERN OVER THE START OF THE 2002/03 CROP SEASON COUNTRY INPUT SUPPLY START OF THE RAINFALL SEASON LESOTHO Planting has been constrained by shortages of tractors, draught power, improved seed and fertilizer. Government has introduced a policy of leaving no land…

HARARE - The humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe is deteriorating at a dangerously rapid pace, the UN World Food Programme warned today. Reports of children dropping out of school and families resorting to ever more desperate coping mechanisms are increasing alarmingly. Levels…

Save The Children this week recommenced food distributions in Binga District in the northwest of Zimbabwe after a five-week suspension. One of the first recipients was Mrs Kerasea Mapande - a 57-year-old widow caring for 21 children orphaned by AIDS and…

JOHANNESBURG, 27 November (IRIN) - The Zimbabwe government's monopoly on maize imports, long cited as one of the reasons why the country is battling to keep up with food needs, is being challenged by a private importer which claims…

South Africa is home to countless asylum seekers from neighboring countries. Many others migrate to South Africa from Zimbabwe to find work. "Thousands come over every day," South Africa's chief director of disaster management told Refugees International (RI). In Messina,…

UN Secretary General's Statement (14 November) Appealing to the international community for more assistance to address the humanitarian crisis in southern Africa, especially in Zimbabwe, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, said that he was concerned about…

JOHANNESBURG, 26 November (IRIN) - Save The Children's Fund (SCF) has resumed its operations in Zimbabwe following the lifting of a ban that prohibited the British charity from distributing emergency food aid. In October SCF and Oxfam, another British NGO, were…

HARARE, Nov 22, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Zimbabwean Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Joseph Made said Friday that the government would do everything possible to make sure the nation had adequate maize seeds. Speaking at a meeting…

Summary The rainy season began during the last weeks of October, and proceeded relatively well through the first week of November, marking the start of the 2002/03 planting season. Farmers have started planting, but are constrained by…