Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe who has maintained close links with Beijing tells Africans that: 'the sun rises in the East...

' The Deputy Assistant Secretaries of State for Africa and Asia James Swan and Thomas Christensen charged that'Chinese support of African leaders such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe who rule through guns and intimidation harms China's image and undermines its ability to play the role of responsible stakeholder in Africa's affairs...

One price it paid was the admission of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe - even though that meant that Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown would boycott the summit in protest at the temporary lifting of the EU's visa ban on Mugabe...

Alongside the main business of endorsing President Robert Mugabe as its flagbearer in next year's elections the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Congress is this weekend expected to choose between sucession rivals Solomon Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa...

Mbeki met Tsvangirai and his group in South Africa and convinced them to stay the course then flew to Harare to discuss the MDC's concerns especially about violence with President Robert Gabriel Mugabe...

When President Robert Mugabe already suspended from the club walked out at the end of the Abuja CHOGM in 2003 it ended McKinnon's long struggle with the conflicting problems of Zimbabwe's land-focused internal crisis the international pressure for action and the desire of African member-states for an African solution by quiet diplomacy...

After a cabinet meeting on 22 November Wade again announced that he wants to visit troubled Zimbabwe to meet President Robert Mugabe...

At a sombre gathering before his party's Central Committee meeting on 26 October President Robert Mugabe solemnly assured some long-time comrades that he would retire from politics within a year...

The Harare delegation is to push for the EU to end all financial restrictions on President Robert Mugabe's government...

Less noticed has been the increasing closeness to Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe which seems to be affecting Mutharika’s style of governance and if it continues could upset Malawi’s relations with some important international donors...