His paeans of praise to Zimbabwe's leader Emmerson Mnangagwa after the stolen elections in August and serial murders of opposition activists there have made him especially unpopular...

Behind the bizarre shenanigans in which the speaker of parliament endorses the recall of at least 15 opposition MPs at the hands of a man widely believed to be working for the ruling party is a plot which could entrench President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political dominance...

According to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the state media there was no discussion of Zimbabwe and the 'forces' that want to see Zimbabwe embarrassed were 'left with egg all over their faces'...

In Statutory Instrument 156 of 2023 Zimbabwe's Sovereign Wealth Fund was renamed the Mutapa Investment Fund and brought under the almost-exclusive power of President Emmerson Mnangagwa...

International and regional concerns persist about the legitimacy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory in national elections last month particularly the failure of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to provide any disaggregated data from the polling stations...

Prior to Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration party agents were being summoned back to polling stations and pressured into signing new forms – either blank V11 forms without the required tally of votes or different results from what they had signed during the counting process...

Regional leaders like the four million Zimbabweans in exile voted with their feet when invited to attend Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration for his second presidential term on 4 September...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa also wants to rejoin the Commonwealth (which also requires a credible election) and get a debt deal – but not at the cost of him or the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front losing power...

And when President Emmerson Mnangagwa thanked Russia's President Vladimir Putin for his offer of 50 000 tonnes of free grain at Africa summit in St Petersburg on 27-28 July he insisted that Zimbabwe was food secure but would accept it anyway...

Yet this initiative is better starred than its predecessors due both to the government's financial desperation worsened by tougher international conditions and Chissano's access to senior figures in the government including President Emmerson Mnangagwa...

And President Emmerson Mnangagwa's support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine spelt out on the sidelines of the Africa summit in St Petersburg on 27-28 July might also count against him (AC Vol 64 No 7 At the other end of geopolitics)...

Repressive measuresThree days earlier President Emmerson Mnangagwa had signed the Patriot Bill into law which criminalises any actions that the authorities judge to infringe the sovereignty and national interests of Zimbabwe...

This year President Emmerson Mnangagwa waited until the last moment before announcing 23 August as the date of the election compressing the time that parties had to choose their candidates before submitting the names to the nomination court on 21 June...