Reports

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Pretoria/Brussels, 17 August 2005 Operation Murambatsvina (Restore Order) cost some 700,000 Zimbabweans their homes or livelihoods or both and otherwise affected nearly a fifth of the troubled country's population. Its impact, as documented in a scathing UN…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 17 August (IRIN) A move to free grain trading from the monopolistic grip of Zimbabwe's government has been roundly welcomed, but observers have labelled the measure a tactful…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BULAWAYO, 17 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - One early morning in June, Mthulisi Ndiweni, 55, suddenly found himself homeless. Government bulldozers rumbled into the squatter camp of Kilarney on the…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 17 August (IRIN) A pilot project has been set up by various international humanitarian agencies to provide shelter to Zimbabweans affected by the government's controversial urban cleanup campaign. Stephane…

By Delia Robertson Johannesburg, 17 August 2005 - The South African Council of Churches has been waiting since the beginning of August for Zimbabwe government import approval for a shipment of more than 37 tons of humanitarian assistance. The…

Pretoria/Brussels, 17 August 2005: With its brutal slum and street clearance campaign "Murambatsvina", Zimbabwe's governance has reached a low point which it is now almost impossible for its neighbours to ignore, despite the reluctance until now of African governments and…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated July 20, 2005. BACKGROUND Conditions for the majority of Zimbabweans continue to deteriorate due to ongoing…

A reception and support centre providing humanitarian assistance for Zimbabwean migrants deported from South Africa is to be established by IOM early September at the Beitbridge border crossing in Matabeleland South. Between 1,000-2,000 Zimbabweans are deported through Beitbridge on a weekly…

Two United Nations agencies, along with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Zimbabwean Government, have launched a pilot project to distribute shelter packages in the Southern African country where Government eviction programmes have left an estimated 700,000 people…

HARARE --The African Union (AU) is facing major embarrassment as President Robert Mugabe appears determined to snub an initiative by the continental body to broker a negotiated solution to Zimbabwe's long running political and economic crisis. Nigerian President and AU…