President Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 on Tuesday, has no plans to give up power, saying he has no "acceptable" successor in place. "The call to step down must come from my party, my party at congress, my party at central committee," Mugabe said in ...
Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe once quipped that he would rule his country until he turned 100. On Saturday, his ruling ZANU PF party endorsed the 92-year-old leader as its candidate for the 2018 presidential election, bringing him closer to achieving his wish. From crushing political ...
Under the scorching Zimbabwean sun, cattle seek shade among stunted thorn bushes in the drought-prone district of Zaka, where crops wither due to increasing temperatures and changing weather patterns. Severe lack of rain across southern Africa has hit the country hard, with government officials saying ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is arranging a visit to Japan by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in late March for summit talks, government sources said Sunday. Abe is eager to strengthen ties with the 92-year-old president, who has been in power since the African country's independence ...
Crocodiles, Lacoste shirts, DNA tests and accusations of stealing underwear and radios. Sniping around these topics highlights the intensifying battles in Zimbabwe's faction-ridden ruling party over who will succeed President Robert Mugabe, in power for 36 years. Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state, recently warned ...
Zimbabwean aviation authorities impounded a U.S.-registered cargo jet, a senior official said Monday, after a dead body later believed to be a stowaway and millions of South African rand were found on board. The Herald, a state-run newspaper, reported that the MD-11 trijet was traveling ...
Pageant judges have crowned a new winner of Zimbabwe's 4th annual "Mister Ugly" contest, upsetting supporters of the crowd favorite and prompting rioting at the event. Judges on Saturday chose 42-year-old Mison Sere, citing his numerous missing front teeth and a wide range of grotesque ...
Zimbabwe is no longer pressing for the extradition of James Walter Palmer, an American dentist who killed a well-known lion called Cecil, a Cabinet minister said Monday. Palmer can now safely return to Zimbabwe as a "tourist" because he had not broken the southern African ...
Amid fears that extraditing the American bow hunter for killing Cecil the lion could hurt Zimbabwe's hunting business, officials there seem to have cooled off on pursuing the case against Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer. It has been a month since Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah ...
A lion charged and killed a safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in the same Zimbabwe national park that was the home of Cecil the lion, who was allegedly killed illegally by an American bow hunter in July. Quinn Swales was leading ...
While the death of a protected lion in Zimbabwe has caused outrage in the United States — much of it centered on the Minnesota dentist who killed the animal — most people in Zimbabwe expressed a degree of bafflement over the concern. The discovery that ...
A hunting guide and a farm owner appeared in court Wednesday on allegations they helped an American dentist kill a protected lion named Cecil, and the head of Zimbabwe's safari association said the big cat was unethically lured into the kill zone and denied ...
