Reports

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 19 August (IRIN) - The painful lesson of the government's urban cleanup campaign, launched three months ago in defiance of international opinion, is that it is much…

GABORONE -- Southern African civic society groups on Wednesday called on regional leaders to pressure President Robert Mugabe and his government to accept and implement findings and recommendations of a United Nations (UN) report on its controversial urban clean-up…

HARARE - Zimbabwe 's biggest crop seed producer says the country does not have enough seed, which could mean it will face more food shortages next year even if it received good rains in the new farming season, barely…

By Peta Thornycroft Harare, 18 August 2005 - President Robert Mugabe's government is proposing to change the constitution to legalize confiscation of farmland and restrictions on the travel of government opponents. Justice Minster Patrick Chinamasa described the constitutional amendments, which went…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 18 August (IRIN) The price of goods and services in Zimbabwe rose by at least 47 percent last month - the highest increase ever recorded in the…

HARARE - The Zimbabwe government has failed to pay workers for the last three months at more than 56 farms it seized from white farmers but now derelict because of lack funds and poor management, ZimOnline has learnt. It was…

HARARE -- The Zimbabwe government on Tuesday opened up trade in maize and wheat and waived duty on grain imports in a desperate bid to facilitate greater inflow of the two key staples into the country, battling worsening food…

GABORONE -- The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has barred regional civic society groups from raising Zimbabwe 's crisis at the organisation's heads of state annual summit beginning in Gaborone today. The SADC Council of Non-governmental Ogarnisations had wanted to present…

HARARE -- Zimbabwe 's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party on Tuesday warned that the country risked becoming a failed state unless regional leaders act to find a peaceful and democratic solution to the five-year old crisis. In…

Harare (dpa) - The Zimbabwe government says it acted in the public interest when it launched a controversial urban clean-up campaign in May that was later condemned by the U.N., the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported Wednesday. In a 45-page response…