TANZANIA: Zanzibaris overcome cultural barriers to seek family planning services

Photo: Issa Yussuf/IRIN Women often lack access to reproductive healthcare services (file photo)

ZANZIBAR, 31 May 2010 (IRIN) - More people are turning to family planning in Tanzania's semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar as the government seeks to improve access to reproductive healthcare. Funding, however, remains a challenge.



"We have been moving on well in the recent months as the turn-up for family planning by both men and women is impressive. Acquiring enough contraceptives for our clients remains the biggest challenge," Hanuni Ibrahim Sogora, the director for family planning in Zanzibar's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, told IRIN.



Health officials say a culture of polygamy and low male contraceptive use has limited the number of women accessing reproductive healthcare services.



"The major problem is a lack of male involvement in family planning. For example, if a mother comes to the clinic with her baby, there is no harm if the husband can escort her because whatever information is given is important for both," Kassim Issa Kirobo of the Zanzibar reproductive health programme, told IRIN. "The men say we are busy looking for a livelihood."



Kirobo, the programme's behaviour change officer in charge of communication and information, said: "The women

Husband and wife fugitives jailed for £3.9m VAT fraud

A COUPLE from Leicestershire who have been on the run for nearly a decade were jailed yesterday for over seven years for their part in a VAT ‘missing trader’ fraud.

Jiva Parmar, 43, and his wife Rekha Parmar, 43, failed to answer a summons in 2002 for their part in the plot to steal £3.9 million.

It is believed that they fled to India and then Dubai. An international arrest warrant was issued and they were both detained when they separately tried to enter the UK through Heathrow Airport last year.

The couple imported phones into the UK VAT free. A contrived chain of companies were set up, one of which was operated by Jiva Parmer, called Sphinx IT Ltd, and another by his wife Rekha Parmar, called AUM Mobile

Obama not expected in Brazil before October elections

Iran’s Ahmadinejad, has Brazil and the US in opposing grounds Zoom Image

Lula da Silva attributed the attitude of President Obama as a signal of US disenchantment with Brazil’s policy towards the Teheran regime and its nuclear industry development, said Folha de Sao Paulo.

The Brazilian president last week was in Teheran for the implementation of an agreement by which Iran will deliver its 3.5% enriched uranium to Turkey which will then reprocess it and return it to Iran for peaceful use.

The joint Brazilian-Turkish effort has

KENYA: Putting HIV-positive people at the centre of prevention

Photo: Keishamaza Rukikaire/IRIN People living with HIV are ready to take up the mantle of prevention

NAIROBI, 28 May 2010 (PlusNews) - People living with HIV must take their place at the forefront of HIV prevention efforts in Kenya if they are to be truly successful, senior government officials said at the launch of a set of national guidelines for rolling out "Prevention with Positives" in the capital, Nairobi.



"We have focused so much on empowering HIV-negative people to avoid infection. We now need to focus on people who are already infected and empower them to prevent new infections, re-infection, and maintain their own and their partners' good health," said Dr Nicholas Muraguri, head of the National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme.

KENYA: Warning over disposal of toxic maize

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN Agricultural officials encourage the proper handling of maize, from harvesting, drying and preparation for shelling to storage, to avoid contamination - file photo

NAIROBI, 26 May 2010 (IRIN) - The plan by the Kenya National Cereals and Produce Board to buy contaminated maize from farmers must also ensure the grain is properly destroyed and does not find its way back to the market, agricultural and environmental experts warn.



The plan follows a government decision to buy the maize, which contains aflotoxins, to prevent its consumption. It followed an alert issued on 10 May that aflatoxin had been found in maize samples from Eastern and Coast provinces.



"Whichever way the disposal is carried out, care should be taken to ensure the contaminated maize does not enter the food chain in any form," an agricultural researcher said. "There are several ways

ZIMBABWE: Life is just not getting any better

Photo: Foto Mapfumu/IRIN Unity government is failing to change people's lives

HARARE, 25 May 2010 (IRIN) - The death of Zimbabwe's secretary for agriculture, Renson Gasela, and two other senior officials from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a car accident recently has highlighted the country's inability to respond to accidents, emergencies or disasters.



It took more than eight hours for the men to receive assistance after the accident because police in the nearby southeastern mining town of Zvishavane had no transport, and fire brigade units had no fuel to make the 25km journey. Emergency services only arrived after the MDC secretary general, Welshman Ncube, provided fuel.



"That incident alone is a small representation of how the coalition government has dismally failed the people of Zimbabwe," political analyst John Makumbe told IRIN, because the response time probably would have been quicker if senior officials from ZANU-PF - the other party in Zimbabwe's unity government - had been involved in an accident.



"The truth of the

US declares “fishery emergency” in the Gulf of Mexico because of BP oil spill

United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Zoom Image

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed nearly 20% of the commercial and recreational fisheries in the area because of the spill, and Locke's declaration will allow the federal government to put additional resources into the Gulf states to soften the blow.

“The disaster determination will help ensure that the federal government is in a position to mobilize the full range of assistance that fishermen and fishing communities may need,” Locke said in a statement accompanying the declaration.

Fishing is a 2.4 billion US dollars industry in the Gulf states. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour requested the declaration,

NIGERIA: Police kill, rape, torture and extort says rights group

Photo: Obinna Anyadike/IRIN Para-military Mobile Police, commonly known as "kill and go"

DAKAR, 21 May 2010 (IRIN) - Nigerian police routinely carry out summary executions of suspected criminals, use torture to extract confessions from detainees, and rape as an interrogation technique, according to a report by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a rights group, which appeals to President Goodluck Jonathan to make good on promises to urgently reform the force.



Below are quotes from the 19 May report, Criminal Force; Torture, abuse, and extrajudicial killings by the Nigeria Police Force.



• Police kill on average 4.6 people per day, according to statistics provided to Human Rights Watch in April 2004 by Tafa Balogun, then Inspector-General of Police.



• In November 2007, Acting Inspector-General of Police Mike Okiro, during his first 100 days of office, claimed the

Volcker Fears Potential Disintegration of the Euro, Without Common Fiscal Policy

Volcker chairs President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board Zoom Image

“You have the great problem of a potential disintegration of the Euro” Paul Volcker (82) said in a speech in London. “The essential element of discipline in economic policy and in fiscal policy that was hoped for” has “so far not been rewarded in some countries.”

European leaders pledged a rescue package of almost $1 trillion this week to counter a mounting debt crisis and restore confidence in the currency. Former US Treasury Secretary John Snow said this

KENYA: Counsellors face burnout as national testing drive presses on

Photo: Glenna Gordon/IRIN Counsellors can be affected by clients' emotional reactions to HIV-positive test results

NAIROBI, 21 May 2010 (PlusNews) - The Kenyan government has won praise for a national door-to-door HIV testing drive that aims to test 80 percent of the population for HIV/AIDS by the end of 2010, but once-enthusiastic counsellors are beginning to show signs of burnout.



Weighed down by the heavy "counsellor's kit", thousands of volunteers walk or cycle long distances in heat or rain, sometimes dealing with difficult clients and having to ask uncomfortable questions.



"At times one wonders whether to discuss HIV testing or to help families deal with matters at hand; how do you deal with a family that tells you they haven't eaten for days, or where a member is bedridden or one whose house is flooded?" asked Judy Nyambura, a counsellor with the national NGO, Liverpool Voluntary Counselling and Testing Care and Treatment (LVCT).



"Other times, we encounter drunkards, idlers and criminals, making personal

SOUTHERN AFRICA: HIV testing and treatment to prevent TB

Photo: Dominic Chavez/WHO TB often goes undetected in HIV-infected patients

JOHANNESBURG, 19 May 2010 (PlusNews) - Diagnosing HIV early and starting antiretroviral (ARV) treatment could be the most important weapons in the battle against HIV-associated tuberculosis, but this would need a huge injection of resources in southern Africa, where the dual epidemics of TB and HIV claim the most lives.



The authors of a paper, part of a series on TB in the British medical journal, The Lancet, note that the disease accounted for more than a quarter of the two million deaths attributed to AIDS-related diseases in 2008, and is the number one cause of illness and death in people living with HIV in Africa, yet efforts to contain TB-HIV co-infection have been "timid, slow and uncoordinated".



A move towards earlier HIV testing and treatment is already underway. Many countries have adopted the 2009 World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, which raised the threshold for starting ARV treatment from a CD4 count of less than 200, to 350.



Earlier ARV treatment as a tool to prevent TB has received less attention, but the reality is that "Many

DRC: Scores buried by landslide, thousands still at risk

Photo: IRIN A landslide buried a village on the slopes of Mt. Nyiragongo (file photo)

NAIROBI, 20 May 2010 (IRIN) - Sixteen people have been confirmed dead and 27 missing after a landslide buried a village on a mountain slope in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), say aid workers in the North Kivu capital of Goma.



The 16 May landslide on Kibiriga village on the eastern slopes of Nyiragongo volcano was caused by an overflowing river. At least 1,500 people were affected, most of whom sought shelter in a nearby village where they

Serbian science sector to get a boost

Funds from an EIB loan could help make Serbia an attractive place for scientists and stem the brain drain.

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Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said the funds will go towards renovating old facilities and building new ones. [Getty Images]

The science sector in Serbia could soon get a jump start, thanks to a 200m-euro loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The funds, intended to help overcome the effects of the global economic downturn, were approved in March and became available this month.

It is the biggest investment in the sector in 30 years. Funds will go

NIGERIA: When water becomes a curse

Photo: Aminu Abubakar/IRIN Man in Borno State with river blindness caused by black fly laying eggs under the skin

MAIDUGURI, 18 May 2010 (IRIN) - A 15-year river blindness immunization programme in the fertile bread-basket of otherwise-arid Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, now in its 11th year, hangs in the balance for lack of funds.



The disease, also known as onchocerciasis, reduced agricultural activities in the past two decades as farmers fled riverine areas, but this flight abated when aid agencies started the immunization programme. Now, two-thirds of the way through, it could flounder.



With up to 36 percent of inhabitants of southern Borno contracting river blindness, the state has the country's highest prevalence levels, and is considered "hyper-endemic", according to the Health Ministry's National Onchocerciasis Control Programme.



"The flowing waters and good vegetation have endowed the southern part of Borno State with a paradoxical curse because these streams and vegetation which are good for cultivation have become breeding grounds for the black flies responsible for high cases of onchocerciasis in the region," Abubakar Galadima, World Health Organization's African Programme on Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) coordinator in Borno State, told IRIN.



"River blindness has an

SUDAN: Disarmament doubts in Lakes State

Photo: Allan Boswell/IRIN A girl rides her bike in Cueibet town: Several civilians in Lakes state have expressed fear that neighbouring communities with more arms could take advantage of the recent disarmament

JUBA, 17 May 2010 (IRIN) - Southern Sudanese authorities have stepped up efforts to collect illegal weapons in Lakes State, but critics say the process is prone to abuse and has left some communities unprotected.



"Disarmament is a good thing, but the style of doing it needs to be changed," said Madhang Majok, commissioner for Cueibet County, said. "The soldiers [deployed to collect the arms] were very rude. Local authorities were not involved."



The state has become a prime disarmament target after several increasingly violent traditional cattle raids.



"They caned many people," said Mark Majong, a teaching assistant in Cueibet, describing the soldiers' firearm collection methods. To instil fear, soldiers arrive while residents are still sleeping, one claimed. They then rounded them up and dunked their heads under water burning with red pepper sauce to force people to reveal hidden firearms, he told IRIN.



Reports of abuses prompted state authorities on 18 March to write to the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) commanders. In the letter, state governor Teler Deng complained of "reports coming to my office daily alleging serious abuses by the forces under your command in the manner and method used to disarm civilians".



Richard MacKinnon, Lakes state coordinator for the UN peacekeeping

KENYA: Wilbroda Wandera, "We won't sleep hungry when I have 40 shillings"

Photo: Jane Some/IRIN Wilbroda Wandera

KIBERA, 14 May 2010 (IRIN) - Widowed 16 years ago, Wilbroda Aoko Wandera, 48, has had to become creative with the little she has, at times spending just 40 shillings (US$0.50) to feed her family of 10. She has no steady job and sells spinach, plaits hair and washes clothes for a fee. She spoke to IRIN on 13 May:



"My husband had been sick for a long time, but his relatives chased me away with my children and demolished our house upcountry when he died, saying I had something to do with his death. Since then life has been one long

SOUTH AFRICA: Straight talk with South Africa's Health Minister

Photo: South African Department of Health "Our treatment capacity has been markedly boosted"

JOHANNESBURG, 14 May 2010 (PlusNews) - Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, appointed South Africa's Health Minister about a year ago, is in charge of the world's largest antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme. Many AIDS activists credit him with helping to usher in a new approach to HIV and AIDS, including changes to treatment guidelines announced by President Jacob Zuma on World AIDS Day 2009. Can the government deliver? IRIN/PlusNews spoke to the minister to find out.



QUESTION: Your target is to test about 15 million South Africans by 2011. What is the point of scaling up testing when the country's treatment capacity is still lagging?



ANSWER: Our treatment capacity has been markedly boosted since the president's announcement on World AIDS Day. We have increased our [health] budget from the previous financial year [March 2009 to February 2010] ... there's a difference of 33 percent, which is the biggest budgetary increase in any item in the budget.



When you are [HIV-]positive, you don't only gain from treatment, you also gain from a change of lifestyle. Some may not need treatment but they will know through the HIV testing and counselling (HCT) campaign that they are positive, and may start attending sessions about how they should change their lifestyle and how they should live.



Q: President Zuma has made some significant changes to HIV treatment guidelines to make more people eligible for treatment. Can the country afford it?

In the past [we] never applied for ARV [funding]...The Global Fund never funded us for ARVs because...there was no internal willingness

A: The new changes are the ones that caused the budget to increase by 33 percent, and Treasury has been able to make

AFRICA: Plugging the technology gap with help from India

Photo: LCD International Harnessing the power of technology

DAR-ES-SALAAM, 14 May 2010 (IRIN) - Investment in information technology can help Africa to improve governance, overcome poverty and deal with critical infrastructure gaps, taking India as an example, the co-chair of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2010 (WEF) said.



"There is no need to reinvent the wheel," Ajai Chowdhry, also chairman and chief executive officer of HCL Infosystems in India, told IRIN on the sidelines of a recent WEF conference in Tanzania. "India and Africa have similar problems so we can apply similar solutions. It's all been tried and tested in India, and the software is readily available to transfer knowledge and experience."



While mobile phone usage in Africa has ballooned – by almost 550 percent between 2003 and 2008, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) – and Kenya, for example, has led the way with the M-Pesa payment system and

Honouring Mesa Selimovic

Selimovic was one of the great writers of his time, but no one is sure what country should claim him. Born to a Bosniak family, he later declared himself a Serb.

By Ljiljana Smiljanic for Southeast European Times in Tuzla -- 13/05/10

A statue of Mesa Selimovic stands in Tulza. [BiH government]

Writer Mehmed "Mesa" Selimovic was born just over 100 years ago, on April 26th in Tuzla. To mark the occasion, lectures and exhibitions were held on his life and work, and the national TV station broadcast a documentary about him.

But some say the centennial did not receive the attention it deserved, in

JetBlue Reports $1 Million First Quarter Loss

JetBlue Airways reported a net loss for the first quarter of $1 million, compared with a net income of $12 million in the first quarter of 2009.

Operating income for the quarter was $42 million, resulting in a 4.8 percent operating margin, compared to operating income of $73 million and a 9.3 percent operating margin in the first quarter of 2009. The airline’s pre-tax loss for the quarter was $2 million, compared to a pre-tax income of $20 million in the first quarter of 2009.

JetBlue reported record first quarter revenues of $870 million despite severe winter storms in the

UGANDA: Minister's turnaround on HIV bill raises concern

Photo: Darren J Sylvester/flickr If the bill is passed in its current form, intentional transmission of HIV will incur a life sentence

KAMPALA, 11 May 2010 (PlusNews) - Ugandan AIDS activists have expressed concern over a decision by the Ministry of Health to back an HIV/AIDS bill that would criminalize the deliberate transmission of HIV.



Last week, State Minister for Health in charge of General Duties, Richard Nduhura, appeared before the parliamentary committee on HIV to explain the government's position on the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill (2009). Nduhura backtracked on his earlier position that portions of the bill would lead to discrimination and undermine the rights of people living with HIV.



"I am in support of the law as it is now," he told

AFRICA: Changing technologies to keep up with climate change

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN Food production is projected to become increasingly difficult because of the variability associated with climate change

NAIROBI, 10 May 2010 (IRIN) - Technological innovation is key to helping African farmers cope with the increasing challenges posed by climate change, say specialists.



"Temperatures have increased and the danger is that agriculture is the backbone of [Africa's] economies," Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, chief executive officer of the South-African based Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), told IRIN. "The increase in temperatures means we have less water in some places and we are already a drought-prone region."



"The technologies that we have on the shelf… like the seeds, may not be compatible with the increased temperatures," she added.



"Malawi recorded world renowned success in terms of food security because we have experienced a fairly stable climate regime over the last 100 years. The technologies that were there [such as] the hybrid seeds… could be taken in, planted. As long they were accessible to the farmers, we could then register increases in yields.



"But the challenge we face now is that there will be new diseases, new vectors and pests that we have not known or seen before …. All these challenges are being superimposed on a system that has not been

West Indies captain Gayle anticipates India 'rethink'

by Julian Guyer

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP) -- West Indies captain Chris Gayle admits the hosts will have to go "back to the drawing-board" ahead of their World Twenty20 Super Eights clash with India here on Sunday.

Both teams started the second round on Friday with heavy defeats at the Kensington Oval, the hosts going down by 57 runs to Sri Lanka after India suffered a 49-run reverse at Australia's hands.

India lost six wickets to Aussie fast bowlers Dirk Nannes and Shaun Tait on a lively pitch and seemed to struggle with short-pitched deliveries - a point not lost on

DRC: Minor rebels, major terror

Photo: Anthony Morland/IRIN Sense of security… but the LRA has even infiltrated towns where UN and Congolese forces are based

NIANGARA, 5 May 2010 (IRIN) - They may number as few as 100 men, women and adolescents, but Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) units scattered across the forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Orientale Province have sown sufficient terror to make some 318,000 people take flight, abandoning their homes and fields, in many cases to the uncertain sanctuary of urban centres.



Their fear is far from misplaced, for extreme brutality is a tactic in the survival strategy of the northern Ugandan rebel group, which has killed almost 2,000 people in Orientale since December 2007, mostly in the districts of Haut- and Bas-Uele.



Lacking supply lines and widely dispersed since a botched air raid in December 2008, the small groups of LRA fighters operate independently of each other and live off the land; that is to say, off the local population's produce and livestock. Since this population has no desire to share what little they have with a rebellion in which they have no stake at all, they are made to leave.



"The violence of its attacks and the suffering it causes are intended to frighten villagers into not giving its pursuers the information they need to wage a counter-insurgency campaign and to frighten civilians away so they can move with less chance of being spotted," the International Crisis Group said in a recent report on the LRA.



Such calculatedly brutal logic is hard to explain to the victims of violence.



"What can you tell a woman who's had her lips and ears cut off for nothing?" UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said after visiting the Haute-Uele town of Niangara, the geographical centre of Africa, during a tour

In Brief: Nearly half of Somali women, children have anaemia

Photo: IRIN A new report indicates almost half Somali women and children are suffering from shocking levels of anaemia and Vitamin A deficiencies (file photo)

NAIROBI, 7 May 2010 (IRIN) - Nearly half of all women and children in Somalia have anaemia and Vitamin A deficiency, a recent study indicates.



The study - conducted by the Food Security Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU-Somalia) in conjunction with the UN Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and under the technical leadership of the Institute of Child Health, University of London - said: "Somali

SOMALIA: Mohamud Mohamed, "It got to the point where I would dread my phone ringing"

Photo: Mohamed Omar/IRIN Mohamud Mohamed is in exile

NAIROBI, 6 May 2010 (IRIN) - Two decades of conflict in Somalia have forced many journalists to flee the country, often after receiving death threats. Since 2009, at least 10 have been killed, bringing the number to 23 since 2005. Another 150 are in exile. On 4 May, a gunman shot dead veteran broadcast journalist Sheik Nur Mohamed Abkey in Mogadishu.



Mohamud Mohamed, 35, now living in Greece, was a senior radio reporter in southern Somalia who also worked for an international radio. That made him

AFRICA: MPs push for continent-wide FGM/C ban

Photo: Bryna Hallam/IRIN Passing laws against FGM/C will not work without getting villagers on board: community educators in Sierra Leone (file photo)

DAKAR, 5 May 2010 (IRIN) - Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly resolution appealing for a global FGM/C ban, as it violates human rights, they say.



Some 17 African states have banned FGM/C, among them Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal and Uganda.



Members of parliament (MPs) from African nations met in Dakar 3-4 May to exchange lessons learned and actions to take to achieve the ban and resolution. While national human rights laws, and regional treaties such as the 2003 Africa Union Maputo Declaration refer directly or indirectly to FGM/C, separate laws must be passed to address it head-on, said delegates.



Morissanda Kouyaté, representative of the NGO Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices, told delegates: "There is a lot of disparity here. Some countries have passed

RWANDA: Community service “inadequate punishment”, say survivors

Photo: IRIN Judges at a Gacaca court (file photo)

KIGALI, 30 April 2010 (IRIN) - Sixteen years after the Rwandan genocide, thousands of perpetrators who confessed their roles before the traditional Gacaca Courts have been released and sentenced to community service, but survivors say this is an inadequate punishment.



"The punishment should be [close] to the pain those inmates inflicted," Theodore Simburudali, the chairman of the genocide survivor organization, Ibuka, told IRIN.



He urged the government to do more to stop the killing of genocide survivors in parts of the country.



Ibuka has frequently decried the killing of survivors, most often after testifying against suspects in the courts. Some genocide suspects and convicts, according to

RWANDA: Community service “inadequate punishment”, say survivors

Photo: IRIN Judges at a Gacaca court (file photo)

KIGALI, 30 April 2010 (IRIN) - Sixteen years after the Rwandan genocide, thousands of perpetrators who confessed their roles before the traditional Gacaca Courts have been released and sentenced to community service, but survivors say this is an inadequate punishment.



"The punishment should be [close] to the pain those inmates inflicted," Theodore Simburudali, the chairman of the genocide survivor organization, Ibuka, told IRIN.



He urged the government to do more to stop the killing of genocide survivors in parts of the country.



Ibuka has frequently decried the killing of survivors, most often after testifying against suspects in the courts. Some genocide suspects and convicts, according to

ZIMBABWE: North Korea's soccer team brings bad memories

Photo: Graeme Williams/UNICEF Unaccompanied children at the Zimbabwe/South Africa border

HARARE, 12 April 2010 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's plan to host a North Korean soccer side for the June 2010 FIFA World Cup in neighbouring South Africa is rekindling memories of the Matabeleland massacres in the 1980s, amid a current climate of political intolerance.



Soon after independence from Britain in 1980, President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF launched Operation Gukhurundi - a Shona phrase for "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains" - on the pretext of tackling insurgents and counter-revolutionaries sponsored by apartheid South Africa.



He unleashed the Zimbabwean army's North Korean-trained 5th Brigade in the provinces of Matabeleland North and South, and Midlands in southwestern Zimbabwe, strongholds of the rival ZAPU party, led by Joshua Nkomo. More than 20,000 people were killed in Operation Gukhurundi.



Now, the planned visit by the soccer side is leading to a resurfacing of emotions and vows of protests against the "unwanted visitors".