zimbabwe: UN forced to close provincial field offices

The United Nations Relief and Recovery Unit (RRU) in Zimbabwe has been forced to close its provincial field offices, which coordinate and monitor the use of donor-funded humanitarian aid. In the latest Zimbabwe Humanitarian Situation Report released this week, the RRU said the government had requested that its "field offices be closed from mid-August". "The government of Zimbabwe's position is that not all procedures for the establishment of this field presence had been properly followed.”