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 ...

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 ...

In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a high-tech "cyber city" a world away from ...

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, ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – The United Nations harshly criticized Zimbabwe yesterday for creating a “disastrous” humanitarian crisis through a vast slum-clearing project that has left 700,000 people ...

A senior UN envoy Friday urged Zimbabwe to halt the deliberate destruction of the country’s slums and give humanitarian aid workers access to more than 700,000 impoverished people who have been driven ...

MBARE, Zimbabwe — The air was filled with dust and fear as riot police with guns forced Farisai Gatawa’s husband to tear down the couple’s one-room shack on the outskirts of the capital, Harare. That ...