Reports

Appeal Target: US$753,545 Balance Requested from ACT Alliance: US$478,424 Geneva, 24 August 2005 We send you this revised appeal on the Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe as the situation has changed considerably. On Wednesday 20th July 2005, the Government of…

HARARE -- Zimbabwe 's biggest fertilizer manufacturer could close down in two weeks time because of foreign currency shortages, a development that would compound problems for farmers already facing severe shortages of seed barely two months before the onset…

JOHANNESBURG -- South African church leaders on Monday said the Zimbabwe government was still to clear relief food destined for victims of its controversial urban clean-up campaign, a week after authorities in Pretoria certified the food was not genetically modified…

HARARE 23 August - Against great odds, Zimbabwean parents and caregivers are keeping their children in school, and in some cases increasing national enrolment, UNICEF said today. At the same time, the UN Children's Fund called on international support for…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 23 August (IRIN) After almost a month of delays in getting relief food to Zimbabwe, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) has asked the South African…

Harare (dpa) - The Zimbabwe government in an effort to stave off massive food shortages has imported 350,000 tonnes of the staple maize grain over the past three months, a newspaper reported Monday. The head of Zimbabwe's state-controlled Grain Marketing Board,…

PRETORIA -- South African President Thabo Mbeki has warned President Robert Mugabe his controversial policies were a stumbling block to regional growth, reminding the veteran Zimbabwean leader that his actions had an "impact on the rest (of the region)." Writing…

JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International at the weekend accused the Zimbabwean government of secretly moving victims of a clean-up operation to new holding camps around Harare in a bid to cover up evidence of the widening crisis. The international human rights…

Harare (dpa) - Zimbabwe's birth rates have nearly halved since independence in 1980, from seven children per family to 3.6 in 2002, the official Herald newspaper reported on Monday. Zimbabwe's population growth rate is now only 1.3 per cent, the…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Unrestricted access to people affected by the Zimbabwe government's controversial urban cleanup campaign is crucial if humanitarian needs are to be addressed, says UN Resident Coordinator Dr Agostinho Zacarias. He told IRIN that the…