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Hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the misery of statelessness in Zimbabwe have been forced to the margins of society, and struggle to access education, healthcare and housing, according to Amnesty International.
In a report titled ‘We are like stray animals’, Amnesty International interviewed descendants of migrant workers who settled in Zimbabwe before independence, as well as survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s - two groups locked out of citizenship by a “cruel combination of discrimination and bureaucracy.”
The report details what it calls Zimbabwe’s discriminatory and arbitrary nationality laws that have left generations of migrant workers and their families marginalized in the only country they have ever called home. At the same time, thousands of survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres, one of the bloodiest episodes of the late former president Robert Mugabe’s rule, are denied citizenship because they cannot provide death cert
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Thousands at risk of displacement due to imminent forced evictions in Eswatini and Zimbabwe
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Thousands at risk of displacement due to imminent forced evictions in Eswatini and Zimbabwe
The threat of forced eviction is putting thousands of people across Southern Africa at serious risk amid the pandemic, Amnesty International said today. The organization highlighted two cases, in Eswatini and Zimbabwe, where authorities are attempting to remove people from their homes to make way for commercial interests, without following procedural safeguards and offering them any alternative accommodation.
In Madonsa town in Eswatini, more than 100 people have been living under the threat of forced eviction for years, to make way for the Eswatini National Provident Fund, a national pension fund administrator. Residents are anxious and have nowhere to go after they were served with a legal notice by the Fund to vacate their homes by 5 March. Meanwhile in Zimbabwe, more than 12,000 people fr
11 March 2021, 21:39 UTC
Thousands at risk of displacement due to imminent forced evictions in Eswatini and Zimbabwe
The threat of forced eviction is putting thousands of people across Southern Africa at serious risk amid the pandemic, Amnesty International said today. The organization highlighted two cases, in Eswatini and Zimbabwe, where authorities are attempting to remove people from their homes to make way for commercial interests, without following procedural safeguards and offering them any alternative accommodation.
In Madonsa town in Eswatini, more than 100 people have been living under the threat of forced eviction for years, to make way for the Eswatini National Provident Fund, a national pension fund administrator. Residents are anxious and have nowhere to go after they were served with a legal notice by the Fund to vacate their homes by 5 March. Meanwhile in Zimbabwe, more than 12,000 people from the Shangani Indigenous minority group are still facing eviction from