Robert Gabriel Mugabe

since 2004; task is to implement CPC policy of wooing ruling party leaders; in 2005 in Africa met old President Sam Nujoma and new President Hifikepunye Pohamba (Namibia) President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda) President Levy Mwanawasa (Zambia) President Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe); key to negotiations with Mugabe to secure a stake in Zimbabwean mining especially platinum; at June 2005 meeting with Mugabe and party bosses John Nkomo Didymus Mutasa and Stan Mudenge Tan said: 'Zimbabwe has good resources and abundant natural resources and China has an advantage for development...

This was the Matebeleland-based independence army now absorbed into President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...

The main disagreement over policy on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been fudged; both sides now back United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's initiative to offer support for Zimbabwe's free-falling economy in exchange for commitments on economic and political reform...

With the nom de guerre Teurai Ropa ('Spill Blood') Vice-President Comrade Joyce Mujuru Chimurenga (née Runaida Mugari) has been consecrated as front-line successor to President Robert Gabriel Mugabe blessed by himself senior military officers and her husband former army commander Solomon Mujuru...

After six consecutive years during which the economy shrank by 40 per cent the government has recruited military personnel to the National Security Council chaired by President Robert Mugabe including his entire cabinet and the heads of the security agencies...

Bingu has just welcomed Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on a state visit as 'a true democrat in every sense of the word' and named a new highway in his honour...

To drum up funds Zuma visited the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi last November; the 'Brother Leader' despises Mbeki and along with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has tried to frustrate the South African leader's African ambitions...

In the longer term Mutambara (39) wants to win the national leadership which in theory falls vacant in 2008 when the presidential term of President Robert Mugabe (82 last month) expires...

ZANU-PF proclaims itself against tribalism but President Robert Mugabe's lieutenants worry about the way he has surrounded himself with relatives and northerners...

The battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe will intensify; elections must be held within 90 days after his death or incapacitation...