HARARE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Just three years after Zimbabwe's independence from Britain, Robert Mugabe sent the army's North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland to crush dissidents and ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Vice-President John Nkomo died on Thursday after treatment for cancer in South Africa, President Robert Mugabe said, removing a potential successor to the ageing leader ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — State radio in Zimbabwe says President Robert Mugabe has announced the death of Vice President John Nkomo. He was 79. Nkomo died in a Harare hospital early Thursday after a ...

The death of 95-year-old former president Robert Mugabe has taken me down memory lane. I remember running outside in celebration as an 18-year-old freshman at Syracuse University in 1980, waving a ...

THE opposition Zapu party has reflected on its turbulent 64-year journey since its formation in 1961, describing decades of ...

When Prime Minister Ian Smith finally conceded that he would allow the nation’s black majority to assume control of their own country, Mugabe was an obvious contender for leadership. But there was ...

The late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was born at Kutama Mission in the Zvimba communal lands, Mashonaland West province, on February 21 st, 1924. He was one of five children of Bona and ...

WASHINGTON — President Robert Mugabe and his political rival, former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, are facing a dilemma of fending off rumors about the state of their health. Analysts say the key ...

The Zimbabwean President has presided over the economic and social collapse of one of Africa’s most prosperous nations During the liberation struggle, Mugabe's ZANU was rivaled by the Zimbabwe African ...

Zimbabwe needs a genuinely pan-African mass movement to change the system its authoritarian president built. By Panashe Chigumadzi Ms. Chigumadzi is the author of a book about the coup that deposed ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Vice-President John Nkomo died on Thursday after treatment for cancer in South Africa, a Zimbabwean political source said, removing a potential successor to ageing ...