Department Spokesman McCormack (May 16): "...The United States has provided $500,000 in cash assistance to China. ...Also, the Chinese Government has agreed to a U.S. offer to provide airlifted relief supplies, including tents, food, blankets, generators and other supplies.
THE army has admitted that it has deployed soldiers on the ground but has denied that the deployments are part of a wider plan to intimidate people into voting for President Robert Mugabe in the second round of the presidential
The ongoing government resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) is hurried and could set the stage for more ethnic violence in future, especially in the volatile Rift Valley Province.
An international conference scheduled to be held next week in Addis Ababa is expected to call for global action on poverty, discrimination and lack of access to basic services for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs), organizers said on Thursday.
PROMINENT lawyer and MDC MP-elect for Buhera West, Advocate Eric Matinenga, has filed an urgent High Court application seeking an order to bar Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander Constantine Chiwenga from deploying soldiers whom he accuses of harassing villagers in his
The top United Nations official in Sudan today welcomed the agreement to end the deadly fighting between Government forces and the former southern rebels in the disputed Abyei area, which has forced thousands of civilians to flee this week.
The Higher Technical Military Institute (ISTM), belonging to the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), situated in Luanda's Grafanil Military Camp, will be inaugurated on Thursday.
Tunisia's Defence Minister, Mr Kamel Morjane who is currently leading the Tunisian delegation at the joint Tunisian-American military commission in Washington, met on Monday with the US Defence Secretary, Mr Robert Gates at the Pentagon.
Some 1,654 fire-arms of various types were handed over voluntarily, by citizens owning them illegally, to the National Police in the northern Uige Province, from April up to the present date, said Thursday the province's deputy governor for organisation and
THE Minister of Defence Alhaji Yahale Ahmed has said that the Federal Government has paid all the outstanding allowances of armed forces personnel across the country as well as rehabilated all barracks and cantonments in the land.
A489-foot Chinese freighter An Yue Jian docked at the port of Durban in South Africa last month with three million rounds of assault rifle ammunition, 3,000 mortar rounds and 1,500 rocket- propelled grenades destined for landlocked Zimbabwe.
The UPDF yesterday offered curious public praise for the police crackdown on city criminals, moments after retracting a press statement in which the army announced it was itching to join the hunt for the urban rogues.
Women in Ndele, a remote town in northern Central African Republic, are making a stand for their rights. The local chapter of the national women's organisation, OFCA, has launched a campaign to alert women to their rights on issues such
The failure of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony to meet a team of elders has created a stalemate that raises fresh questions over the viability of talks between his group and the Ugandan government, a regional analyst said.
