Robert Gabriel Mugabe

On 13 February Makoni launched his independent candidacy in the presidential election due on 29 March by describing Zimbabwe as 'a sad country full of fear' and calling on members of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to abandon 83-year-old President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and vote for a 'new beginning'...

Kenya and Uganda will probably continue to support President Robert Gabriel Mugabe while Kikwete's position remains unclear...

Only former Finance Minister Simba Makoni can resolve the issue of whether he is going to challenge President Robert Mugabe for the Presidency in the elections now set for 29 March...

The leading plotter is President Robert Gabriel Mugabe who is determined to win by pressing ahead – regardless of the breakdown in negotiations with the opposition – and hold elections as soon as possible preferably before the end of March...

Mugabe delighted with Zuma Moreover the leftists want the government to put immediate pressure on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Gabriel Mugabe to hold fair elections and stop harassing the opposition and to offer financial and political support to the opposition and civil groups...

Diplomatically he is close to President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front regime and thoroughly approves of China's support there...

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...