Reports

HARARE - Zimbabwe's fallout with the international community is threatening to derail regional peacekeeping training with the European Parliament calling on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to close down its peacekeeping training centre in Harare. In a raft of…

Almost one million people have been displaced from their homes, causing profound disruption and suffering to families and communities. This is an underreported and misunderstood humanitarian crisis of deep proportions. This began at the end of May, several weeks after…

HARARE - Newly-appointed South African Deputy-President Pumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said yesterday her country was keen to understand the troubles faced by its northern neighbour, Zimbabwe, which is choking under its worst ever economic and political crisis. Mlambo-Ngcuka told journalists after a meeting…

HARARE, Jul 12, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) - Visiting South African Deputy President Mlambo-Nqcuka said here Tuesday that South Africa was ready and willing to assist Zimbabwe in some of the economic and social challenges it was facing, arising…

By Carole Gombakomba Washington, 12 July 2005 - In the latest phase of the Harare government's assault on unauthorized homes and other structures, police ordered residents of so-called low-density Harare suburbs including Waterfalls, Houghton Park, Milton Park and Hatfield to tear…

Harare (dpa) - South Africa's Anglican archbishop of Cape Town believes Zimbabwe is facing a "humanitarian crisis'' following the government's campaign of shack demolitions that has left at least 300,000 people homeless, his spokesman said. Spokesman Matthew Esau, in remarks…

Outrage over the Zimbabwean Government's forced eviction and destruction of the homes of thousands of families has rightly caused international condemnation and led to renewed calls for sanctions. But, as MRG points out, forced eviction has long been a…

JOHANNESBURG - South African church leaders yesterday warned that the demolition of thousands of homes by the Harare authorities may turn young Zimbabweans into "catalysts for conflict". The church leaders are in Zimbabwe to assess a controversial government "clean up" exercise…

Harare (dpa) - The Zimbabwe government has denied any plans to hold talks with the main opposition party, saying contact between the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the ruling party of President Robert Mugabe will be confined to…

BULAWAYO -- Fifty-six year old Mthulisi Dube slowly sips his tea during breakfast in a desperate bid to fend off the biting cold. The breakfast consists of black tea, and two thin slices of bread. Dube, who looks much older than…