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African
Union fact finding mission to Zimbabwe
African
Union (AU)
June 29, 2005
UNIÃO
AFRICANA
Addis Ababa,
P. O.
Box 3243
ETHIOPIA
Telephone :
517700
Fax : 510430
H.E. Alpha Oumar
Konare, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, has designated
Commissioner Bahame Tom Nyanduga, a member of the African Commission
on Human and Peoples' Rights, Special Rapporteur, Responsible for
Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa,
to carry out a fact finding mission in Zimbabwe between 30 June
and 4 July 2005, following the clean up operation conducted by the
Government of Zimbabwe against illegally constructed houses and
shelters.
During his mission,
Commissioner Nyanduga is planning to meet with the Zimbabwean authorities
and relevant human rights organizations and to visit the Hatcliffe,
Mbare, Mufakose, and Chitungwiza surburbs and Caledonia farm among
other places, as well as any villages where the people whose shelters
were demolished have moved to, in order to assess the prevailing
the situation.
At the end of
the mission, the Commissioner is expected to report back to the
Chairperson of the African Union Commission.
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