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2 Sep    Donors Turn Down Request for Outreach Funds  hot 
The Constitution Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) in charge of the outreach exercise, met with the United Nations Development Programme on Monday, looking for an additional $8 million for its outreach, but it was reportedly turned down.

1 Sep    Female Business Leaders' Club Gets International Recognition (also in   )  hot 
LYNN Mukonoweshuro, the Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited (KFHL) group CEO has been inaugurated as the president of a new club of female leaders that plough back into society.

24 Aug    Maguwu's Appointment Dismissed  hot 
Government has dismissed the purported appointment of Farai Maguwu as the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme local focal person.

24 Aug    Maguwu's Appointment Dismissed  hot 
Government has dismissed the purported appointment of Farai Maguwu as the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme local focal person.

27 Aug    Bread Price to Remain Unchanged - Bakers (also in      )  hot 
The Bakers Association of Zimbabwe says it will find a way of absorbing the effect of the 20 percent increase in global wheat prices to avoid passing the cost to consumers.

27 Aug    Government Says No to Handouts (also in      )  hot 
Zimbabwe does not want handouts from the international community and only needs the illegal economic sanctions the West imposed to be lifted to achieve self-reliance, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has said.

18 Aug    SADC Issues Deadline to Implement Outstanding Issues  hot 
The SADC Troika on Defence, Security and Politics on Sunday resolved that all outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement (GPA) should be fully implemented within a month.

18 Aug    Zuma Claims Progress in Easing Logjam (also in   )  hot 
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma was yesterday said to be close to resolving the political impasse in the government of national unity in Zimbabwe.

18 Aug    U.S. Moves to Repeal Sanctions Law  hot 
A United States senator, Jim Inhofe, who is also a member of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday introduced a bill to repeal sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and his cronies.

21 Aug    Civic Groups to Fight Plans to Deport Asylum Seekers From UK (also in               )  hot 
Plans by the Home Office to deport Zimbabwean failed asylum seekers will be met with resistance, according to rights groups in the UK.

16 Aug    UN Appeals for More Aid (also in         )  hot 
The United Nations has this week launched an appeal for more than $400 million to help Zimbabwe, with the group's food agency warning than more than a million people will go hungry in the coming year.

16 Aug    More Food Production, But Not Enough (also in      )  hot 
Zimbabwe's production of maize, its staple food, has improved "significantly", but the country is still food insecure and about 1.68 million people will require assistance in the first quarter of 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said in a national crop and food security situation report released on 9 August.

15 Aug    EU Re-Engagement in Trouble (also in   )  hot 
ZIMBABWE coalition government's concerted efforts to re-engage with the European Union (EU) and the West appear to be in a precarious position after President Robert Mugabe this week condemned the foreign powers to hell. "We say to hell, to hell, to hell with them," an angry President Mugabe chided the EU and the West, accusing them of maintaining targeted travel and financial sanctions slammed on him and other ZANU-PF officials.

15 Aug    Food, Health Top Humanitarian Needs (also in         )  hot 
A UNITED Nations agency has said health and food aid top the list of humanitarian assistance required by Zimbabweans as the situation remains fragile due to collapsing health, water and sanitation infrastructure. According to the latest consolidated appeal issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the country remains saddled with the problem of internally displaced people but discussions are underway to establish the scope of their needs and solutions to the problems following an assessment of the humanitarian situation conducted in September last year.

15 Aug    Food Security Improves, but 1.68 Billion People Still Need Food Assistance (also in         )  hot 
Part  of  this  will  be  covered by commercial imports, projected to total 317,000 tons of cereals, including 200,000 tons of maize. The  mission  estimated  1.68 million Zimbabweans would be food insecure in 2010/11  and  133,000 tons of food assistance would be needed to feed them.

8 Aug    Governance Crisis Drifts from AU Agenda (also in   )  hot 
THE Zimbabwe crisis, one of the most dominant political questions on the continent for close to a decade, is disappearing from the radar of regional and continental diplomacy as leaders focus more on pressing issues such as piracy and resurgent terrorism.