Despite their country’s severe economic problems, many voters in Zimbabawe chose not to go to the polls on Saturday.
Among them were thousands of people displaced during President Robert Mugabe’s so-called “clean-up” operation in 2005. The project moved an estimated 300,000 people from slums.
But as Haru Mutasa reports, many are still waiting for their promised new home.
The president of Bolivia has appealed to his neighbours for help, as months of torrential rains devastate his country.South America’s poorest nation is already looking at a clean up bill of around half a billion dollars.The UN’s World Food Programme is providing aid for tens of thousands of people, while rescue teams on the ground are scrambling to reach those still in danger.Teresa Bo reports from Santa Cruz.
Following a disputed election on December 27, more than 650 have been killed in politically-motivated ethnic violence in Kenya.More than 250,000 people have been displaced in a country that is more used to receiving refugees from war-torn neighbours like Sudan and Somalia.Al Jazeera speaks to Nelson Munyao, a displaced Kenyan living in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital.
Flooding in Mozambique has killed at least seven people and forced sixty thousand more to evacuate their homes. Heavy rainfall has increased water levels in three major rivers.Authorities expect those levels to remain high until mid February, and are preparing to move more than two hundred thousand people.Al Jazeera’s Kalay Maistry reports from a resettlement camp in Caia in central Mozambique.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow visits a displaced person’s camp outside the capital Mogadishu where aid workers have been shocked by the condition of the people arriving.