Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is literally paving the way for his wife's ascent to power.
In another sign of the first lady's growing clout, Harare residents awoke on Tuesday to a new street, Dr. Grace Mugabe Way, leading to the conference center where Africa's oldest leader may this week anoint his chosen political successor.
The veteran former guerrilla leader, who has manned the helm of the southern African country since the end of British rule in 1980, has never said whom he would prefer to take over when he retires or dies.