HARARE, Zimbabwe — Riot police turned an urban township into a ghost town yesterday, rounding up the last residents in defiance of a U.N. call to halt a demolition campaign that has left 700,000 ...

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to assess the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina, UN Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe, July 22, 2005 [report condemning ...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As dark clouds began to build on the horizon, Tarisai Nyakunu Zimunya, a single mother-of-three, looked worried. The fragile structure she calls home ...

A U.N. report condemned the Zimbabwe government for destroying urban slums in a “disastrous venture” that has left 700,000 people homeless or jobless and demanded that those responsible be punished, ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 22 -- A senior U.N. envoy urged Zimbabwe on Friday to halt the deliberate destruction of the country's slums and give humanitarian aid workers access to more than 700,000 ...

Zimbabwe's government on Thursday announced the completion of a crackdown on slums and street traders that left some 700,000 people without homes or livelihoods. But the opposition said demolitions ...

Zimbabwe's foreign minister, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, told a news conference in Harare that the report, which was made available to the government on Wednesday, was hostile, biased and wrong. "The ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's government on Thursday announced the completion of a crackdown on slums and street traders that left some 700,000 people without homes or livelihoods. But the opposition ...

A United Nations report on Friday slammed what it called a "disastrous" policy in Zimbabwe to clear slums in the country's cities. The report looked at how, since May, an estimated 700,000 people have ...