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Zimbabwe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Date of Birth: 21 February 1924
Place of Birth: Zvimba
Died: 6 September 2019


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Falling out with the Mugabes

Zimbabwe has confiscated the platinum and copper interests of Hsieh Ping-sung without compensation after he fell out with President Robert Mugabe and his family Africa Confidential has learned...


Wasting assets

President Robert Mugabe had to cut short his annual leave and return from the Far East when his sister Brigid Zvenhamo Mugabe died; she had been in a coma for three years...


Gems may unpick European sanctions

The pressure from Belgium to accommodate Zimbabwean business – especially its gems – may yet clash with the British government's historic enmity with President Robert Mugabe and the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in the context of the European Union...


Success needs succession

The only certainty for Zimbabwe in 2014 is that the succession issue will not be resolved so long as President Robert Mugabe is still in control...


Ruling party conference ignores crisis

The Mashonaland West provincial capital Chinoyi got all dressed up for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front conference on 13-14 December but the deliberations produced no breakthroughs – either on the worsening economic problems or the stalemate over the successor to President Robert Mugabe...


Dilemmas over power cuts and shortages

Chinamasa a hardline believer in President Robert Mugabe's 'Look East' policies may recognise that even if the token sanctions imposed by the United States and members of the European Union were lifted the benefit to Zimbabwe's economy would be negligible...


The time of Mandela

Only Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un seemed to struggle to find words of praise for such a popular leader who had served a modest single term in office...

Would Britain's David Cameron warmly greet Robert Mugabe...


Struggles with the economy

Amid chaotic provincial party elections President Robert Mugabe tried to refocus the party's obsession away from the succession and on to the economy and election promises at last week's ZANU-PF Politburo and Central Committee meetings (AC Vol 54 No 23 ZANU-PF power struggles resume)...


ZANU-PF power struggles resume

With Morgan Tsvangirai worrying about his exit package and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) no longer a parliamentary threat the ZANU-PF leadership can put the fast-fading nightmare of four years' power-sharing behind it and get on with the business of competing for the succession to President Robert Mugabe who turns 90 in February...


Van Hoogstraten in airline sell-off

Van Hoogstraten long an admirer of President Robert Mugabe and a major donor to the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) is reportedly Zimbabwe's biggest landowner...


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