Reports

The Nutrition Surveillance Status in Zimbabwe The Food and nutrition Council in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare has released the much awaited nutrition surveillance results for the data which was collected in November/December 2004. The results have…

By Chipo Sithole in Harare (Africa Reports: Zimbabwe Elections No 23, 31-Mar-05) Tens of thousands of former workers on white-owned farms were deprived of their votes in the March 31 parliamentary election. Some 350,000 black workers and their families were rendered homeless…

HARARE, 30 Mar 2005 (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean government has reportedly dismissed over one thousand polling officers and accredited election monitors, ahead of Thursday's parliamentary elections, on allegations that they support the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The MDC and…

by Niall O'Keefe, Trócaire's Southern Africa Programme Officer As Zimbabwe prepares for this week's parliamentary elections there are growing concerns that the ballot will neither be free nor fair. It was hoped in Zimbabwe that the elections being held on 31 March…

HARARE, Mar 30, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said that all is set for Thursday's parliamentary elections with a total of 50,000 ballot boxes already in place in the country's 120 constituencies and the…

On the eve of tomorrow's general elections in Zimbabwe, Refugees International urges the government of Zimbabwe to cease discrimination against former farm workers. There are reports that the government has denied food assistance to vulnerable populations on the basis of…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS Consensus is building around the view that food production in the 2004/05 agricultural season will be poor and not sufficient to satisfy the consumption needs for the April 2005 - March 2006 consumption year.…

President Robert Mugabe's claims of the triumph of his seizures of white-owned farms ring hollow at campaign rallies where people are hungry. Confronted by unenthusiastic crowds, Mugabe has admitted for the first time while campaigning that the country is confronted by…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 29 March (IRIN) - NGOs have lamented the lack of special arrangements for elderly and infirm voters ahead of Zimbabwe's legislative elections on 31 March. Mary Madya, 25,…

HARARE, Mar 29, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Zimbabwean Ministry of Welfare has released figures on the quantities of food delivered to two food-deficit provinces, in response to a London-based Sky News report saying that the government had…