The new government of Zimbabwe needs strong international support. Crops are falling and there is a drought coming very soon. 33% of the population of Zimbabwe has AIDS. This year is a critical time to promote peace and take an active approach to help rebuild Zimbabwe and allow for people to have their most basic needs met, such as food, water and medicine.
It is imperative that NGO's do not just send aid, but rather make sure there are NGO's in Zimbabwe responsible for giving the food aid to the people. Please phone 411 to get the number for your local senator and petition for greater support of Zimbabwe.
All people everywhere should have their most basic needs for food, water and medicine met.
Nearly 25,000 people a day all over the world die of hunger relatated causes.
You can go to the following websites for more information about Zimbabwe:
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Zimbabwe to hold three day peace programme: minister
HARARE — Zimbabwe will hold a three-day programme to promote peace and national healing, as political violence remains a problem despite the creation of a unity government, a cabinet minister said Wednesday.
"Incidents of violence are still taking place," minister of state Sekai Holland told journalists. "Zimbabwe is a classical case of a country coming from a conflict."
Holland is one of three state ministers appointed by the unity government to spearhead national healing and reconciliation following political tensions over disputed elections last year.
Co-minister John Nkomo said the programme from Friday to Sunday would focus on prayer, ahead of a more extensive reconciliation scheme still being developed.
"The people are expected to get together in various churches and denominations to participate," Nkomo said.
"May I say after dedication we will then proceed to unfold the way forward, but first of all we thought we needed to be guided by God."
President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai agreed to a unity government in February, nearly a year after disputed polls that edged the 85-year-old leader out of a majority win for the first time since independence in 1980.
The new government has halted the economic haemorraging that left the nation impoverished after a decade of world-record hyper-inflation.
But so far Mugabe has proved reluctant to accept major political reforms, maintaining control over security forces while pressing ahead with prosecutions of rights activists and MDC supporters.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Case against activists strains new government
Zimbabwe's High Court on Wednesday postponed the trial of
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activists charged with attempting to
overthrow President Robert Mugabe, in a case that has strained the new
government.
Four MDC members, part of a group of rights activists, including
prominent campaigner Jestina Mukoko, were abducted and unlawfully detained
between October and December last year, their lawyers say.
The case has been held up because the activists have applied to refer
the case to the Supreme Court. On June 22, the High Court will decide on the
application, said Judge Tendai Uchena. The trial is expected to start after
the ruling.
Mugabe and his rival, MDC leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai,
formed a power-sharing government in February, hoping to end a political
crisis after last year's disputed election.
But the prosecution of the MDC members and rights activists, charged
in May, has raised tensions in Zimbabwe's new administration, which needs
billions of dollars in international financial support to rescue the
country's ruined economy.
Western donors say aid will not flow to Zimbabwe unless a democracy is
created and economic reforms are implemented.
Defence lawyers said state security agents abducted and tortured the
activists, making any prosecution illegal.
"To try them in these circumstances violates their right to the
protection of the law. There have been serious violations to their
constitutional rights," defence lawyer Alec Muchadehama said.
"Applicants contend that they are, themselves, victims of crimes
perpetrated by the police and other security agents,"
State prosecutors accuse the activists, who have been released on
bail, of trying to scuttle the trial.
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activists charged with attempting to
overthrow President Robert Mugabe, in a case that has strained the new
government.
Four MDC members, part of a group of rights activists, including
prominent campaigner Jestina Mukoko, were abducted and unlawfully detained
between October and December last year, their lawyers say.
The case has been held up because the activists have applied to refer
the case to the Supreme Court. On June 22, the High Court will decide on the
application, said Judge Tendai Uchena. The trial is expected to start after
the ruling.
Mugabe and his rival, MDC leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai,
formed a power-sharing government in February, hoping to end a political
crisis after last year's disputed election.
But the prosecution of the MDC members and rights activists, charged
in May, has raised tensions in Zimbabwe's new administration, which needs
billions of dollars in international financial support to rescue the
country's ruined economy.
Western donors say aid will not flow to Zimbabwe unless a democracy is
created and economic reforms are implemented.
Defence lawyers said state security agents abducted and tortured the
activists, making any prosecution illegal.
"To try them in these circumstances violates their right to the
protection of the law. There have been serious violations to their
constitutional rights," defence lawyer Alec Muchadehama said.
"Applicants contend that they are, themselves, victims of crimes
perpetrated by the police and other security agents,"
State prosecutors accuse the activists, who have been released on
bail, of trying to scuttle the trial.
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