A few days after declaring he was removed from power in an illegal coup, Zimbabwe’s former dictator Robert Mugabe expressed a desire to meet with his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to help him “return to legitimacy.”
94-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe returned to the spotlight on Thursday, four months after he was removed from the office he held for four decades. Despite an extravagant exit package that guaranteed Mugabe a lifetime of luxury in exchange for his graceful departure, he bitterly criticized the “coup” that swept him from power, denounced his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa as a “disgrace,” and suggested his ouster should be reversed.
Police in Zimbabwe arrested a senior official and professor at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) on Friday for having participated in issuing former First Lady Grace Mugabe a Ph.D. which she did not qualify for, according to multiple reports.
Morgan Tsvangirai, former prime minister of Zimbabwe and a stubborn foe of recently deposed dictator Robert Mugabe, died at the age of 65 in a South African hospital on Wednesday.
In a hopeful sign for post-Mugabe Zimbabwe, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decided to stop seizing land from white farmers, offering them 99-year leases on their property instead.
Zimbabwe’s former Public Service Minister Patrick Zhuwao, nephew of deposed dictator Robert Mugabe, claimed in a column published Saturday that the current regime in Harare has “humiliated and ill-treated” Mugabe.
Some American analysts are calling on investors in the United States to re-engage with Zimbabwe, ignoring the unrest that has been plaguing the African nation since the military’s removal of the continent’s oldest dictator Robert Mugabe last November.
Zimbabwe’s taxpayers found out this week they will be responsible for maintaining a “reasonably sized” mansion, a fleet of luxury vehicles, and a staff of at least 20 people for ousted dictator Robert Mugabe, in addition to paying for first-class air travel around the world and all utility bills.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, who became the new and theoretically temporary president of Zimbabwe after the military cordially invited his nonagenarian mentor Robert Mugabe to consider retirement, made his first foreign trip in office on Thursday. He visited South Africa to convince investors that Zimbabwe is once again a safe place to put their money.
Zimbabweans were literally dancing in the streets last week when dictator Robert Mugabe’s four decades of tyranny came to an ignominious end, but on Friday the government declared a national holiday in Mugabe’s honor. February 21st will henceforth be known as Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day.
The fall of Robert Mugabe, the genocidal first dictator of Zimbabwe, occurred almost exactly one year after his good friend Fidel Castro’s death.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the former vice president of Zimbabwe whose sacking by dictator Robert Mugabe touched off a political crisis that ended Mugabe’s 37 years of rule, returned to Zimbabwe on Wednesday and announced that he would be sworn in as interim president on Friday.
Jubilant citizens of Zimbabwe celebrated news of longtime dictator Robert Mugabe’s resignation from Tuesday night into Wednesday.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed on Tuesday that the United States provided Zimbabwe with $220 million in aid in 2016 alone, citing “democratic governance” as one of the areas the U.S. has funded.
Dictator Robert Mugabe sent a letter of resignation to the Zimbabwean parliament on Tuesday, ending four decades of tyrannical misrule and concluding a delicate coup launched against him by military commanders last week.
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The Zimbabwean media seized control of the state broadcasting station and took President Robert Mugabe, 93, into custody on Wednesday morning, according to numerous international media reports.
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