Robert Gabriel Mugabe

The war continues to consume President Robert Mugabe's government's scarce resources: fuel shortages mass redundancies soaring inflation and interest rates in Zimbabwe are all blamed on the intervention in Congo...

President Robert Mugabe under unprecedented political pressure has little incentive to cut a deal with the former colonial power this time...

Mbeki's main objective has been to end the Congo war and make the Lusaka II ceasefire work through a delicate balance of moral suasion and economic pressure on President Robert Mugabe...

The Congo war is at the heart of President Robert Mugabe's troubles...

Also barely noticed behind the Gadaffi carnival and Britain's row with Zimbabwe amid President Robert Mugabe's lurching strides towards consolidating his dictatorship was France's announcement that it would effectively write-off US$7 billion of African debt within five years...

Rather than change policy now the circle around President Robert Mugabe believes it can use the state security apparatus to undercut the rural opposition and a militant squad of well-paid war veterans to intimidate opposition supporters in the towns...

President Robert Mugabe has taken over the portfolio...

It was clearly a massive protest vote against President Robert Mugabe's government but the loyalist forces were hardly mobilised as shown by the huge stayaways in ZANU-PF's core constituencies in the rural areas which make up 70 per cent of Zimbabwe...

This is despite a cabinet meeting in Downing Street last month when Prime Minister Tony Blair overruled Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's arguments for continuing to block arms export licences in particular spare parts for the Hawk jets which British Aerospace (BAe) sold President Robert Mugabe's government a decade ago...

Presidents Robert Mugabe (and his 11 000 or so Zimbabwean troops) José Eduardo dos Santos (and some 5 000 Angolan troops) and Sam Nujoma (around 2 500 Namibian troops) have been the backbone of the war against the rebels supported by Rwanda and Uganda...