93-year-old Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe made his first public appearance since the coup that kinda-sorta deposed him this week, attending a university graduation ceremony on Friday during which he apparently fell asleep.
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The fate of Robert Mugabe remained in doubt on Thursday, as he reportedly negotiated with the Zimbabwean military to either retain power or receive safe passage out of the country into exile.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday revised its travel advisory for Zimbabwe, warning Israelis not to visit the country and telling those who are there to remain inside their homes amid reports of a coup in the southern African nation.
93-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe’s reign over Zimbabwe appears to be coming to an end, as he has reportedly been placed under house arrest by the military. Military forces have also seized control of state media, which they helpfully used to inform the public that “this is not a military takeover.”
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, recently signed as a Fox News contributor, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Tuesday hearing to review the presidential launch authority for nuclear weapons.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s army said Wednesday it has President Robert Mugabe and his wife in custody and is securing government offices and patrolling the capital’s streets following a night of unrest that included a military takeover of the state broadcaster.
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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Police in Zimbabwe have arrested an American citizen for allegedly insulting dictator Robert Mugabe on Twitter, embassy officials have confirmed.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has made Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe an official ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ just a month after he vowed that the killers of white farmers in his country would never be prosecuted.
Another South African farmer has been reported killed after three gunmen attacked his homestead — part of a sustained campaign of violence across the country.
North Korea’s state newspaper touted the rogue nation’s alliances with Cuba and Zimbabwe on Wednesday, attempting to prove it is not isolated in the face of increasingly stern condemnation from President Donald Trump.
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A hunting expedition went seriously wrong in Zimbabwe on Friday when South African big game hunter Theunis Botha was crushed to death by a charging elephant after it was shot by a fellow hunter.
At the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban on Thursday, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe bizarrely insisted his country is not poor or fragile, even though it chugs in at Number 25 on the U.N.’s Human Development Index for Africa.
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AFP — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 on Tuesday, has no plans to give up power, saying he has no “acceptable” successor in place. “The call to step down must come from my party, my party at congress,
Saturday Night Live and Alec Baldwin returned with another Donald Trump skit featuring the president (and his skull masked advisor “Steve Bannon”) in the Oval Office making calls to foreign leaders.
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Contents: Venezuela to print 20,000 Bolivar note as currency; Zimbabwe introduces a new currency, ‘bond notes’
Contents: Hong Kong legislature in chaos, under threat of intervention by mainland China; Sudan follows Uganda, Namibia in cutting ties with North Korea
A couple’s late night swim in a lodge’s pool in Africa was interrupted after a crocodile leaped into the pool to join them.
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Contents: UN report on Burundi documents massive human rights violations; Burundi lawmakers vote to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Wikileaks email with the subject heading “Cecil the lion” reveals that Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta, asked a New York Times journalist to write an op-ed calling for the extradition of Cecil’s killer.
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Contents: Zimbabwe police violently disperse protests over new ‘bond note’ currency; Zimbabwe launching a Soviet style command agriculture program
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The Chinese government is touting the support of “dozens” of countries for its illegal colonization of the South China Sea, with particular praise for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe’s statement opposing the arbitration of China’s territorial dispute in international court.
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Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, organized a thousands-strong protest in the nation’s capital Thursday calling for nonagenarian dictator Robert Mugabe step down after 28 years of iron-fisted rule.
A Zimbabwean game reserve has warned that it may have to cull 200 lions because of what it calls “the Cecil effect.” Under normal circumstances, the rights to shoot those lions would have been sold to big game hunters – bringing
The government of Zimbabwe may soon be forced to shoot 200 lions due to the lull in big-game hunting in light of the anti-hunting backlash that followed the killing of Cecil the Lion in July 2015.
Zimbabwe will be planning a lavish concert to celebrate longtime dictator Robert Mugabe’s 92nd birthday, his official photographer announced, despite Zimbabwe’s dire economic state. The concert will be named “Well Done, Bob”—an attempt to make Mugabe appear more relatable to young people.