Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has petitioned Parliament to ban the deployment of soldiers to curb civic disturbances.

In an effort to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, the Zimbabwe National AIDS Council (NAC) met AIDS organisations to set in motion a process to facilitate HIV/AIDS prevention and care by district HIV/AIDS committees throughout the country.

The Supreme Court’s ruling granting the government temporary relief from an earlier interdict preventing it from acquiring commercial farms, attracted wide media attention. The state media focused on comment from government officials and those individuals and organizations sympathetic to the ruling party to give the impression of unanimous approval.

Deliberate acts of arson, violence and intimidation have become the norm on the country's commercial farms - dashing hopes that the situation would normalise after the signing of the Abuja accord last month.

The Zimbabwean government is considering banning civic groups, churches and aid agencies from conducting voter education programmes because they have "hidden agendas".

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