[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief,
the
UN Security
Council [official website] discussed the worsening housing
crisis in Zimbabwe during Thursday's session, with several members expressing
their reluctance to consider the issue. The British and acting US ambassadors to
the UN both expressed concern with the fallout from "Operation Restore Order",
which has resulted in over 46,000 arrests of illegal merchants and others and
somewhere between 330,000 and one million individuals left homeless. While
several members of the Council expressed concern about the circumstances, others
said they considered the actions of
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [Wikipedia
profile] to be internal matters and outside the purview of international peace
and security granted the Security Council. JURIST's
Paper Chase has
continuing coverage of
Zimbabwe [JURIST news archive]. ZimOnline has
local
coverage.