Zimbabwe
Matabeleland South Assessment A UN inter-agency team carried out a rapid assessment of the potential gaps in the present response, and of the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Matabeleland South from 24th -- 29th March 2003.…
Zimbabwe
Reporting Period: 20 March - 3 April 2003 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS (Based on the 10 point outcome objectives of UNICEF response to the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa) Outcome objective 1: 95% of children immunized against measles and given Vitamin A supplementation A…
Zimbabwe
By George Kararach For the past two years, George Kararach has worked as a consultant policy analyst in Zimbabwe - for the last year working with UNICEF Zimbabwe. The support of UNICEF in preparing this article is gratefully acknowledged. The opinions…
Zimbabwe
UN Agency Mission to Mat South A joint UN Agency mission under the direction of the RRU is visiting Matabeleland South Province following the Zimbabwean governments declaration of a 'state of disaster' in the province, gazetted on…
Zimbabwe
World Vision Zimbabwe has pledged to bring in more food into the country to ensure that no one starves in a nation where over 7.2 million people are in need of urgent food aid. Speaking during her visit to…
Zimbabwe
by Solveig Olafsdottir in Masvingo province Within the space of a week, the Sithole family have gone from having too much water to hardly any at all. First, they lost their house, land and property Bikita district, in Zimbabwe's Masvingo…
Zimbabwe
A child supplementary feeding programme and the feeding of the chronically ill is set to continue for another six months following negotiations between World Vision Zimbabwe and USAID. Recently, the European Commission Humanitarian Office approved a US$472 000 grant for…
Zimbabwe
UN Coordinator and French Ambassador visit the field A mission led by the UN Coordinator, Mr Victor Angelo and the French Ambassador to Zimbabwe, H.E. Didier Ferrand, visited a number of places in Mwenezi and Chiredzi districts 26 February 1 March…
Zimbabwe
Forty-three families in Insiza District in Matebeleland South, 100 kilometres south of Bulawayo, are set to benefit from a ZW$30 million irrigation scheme set up by World Vision Zimbabwe. The Zhulube Irrigation Scheme, which is nearing completion, is going to…
Zimbabwe
UN launches Mid-term review of CAP The United Nations launched its Mid-Term Review of the 2002/03 Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland) on the 14th February…
