In the bush: President Mugabe, General Tongo and Emmerson Mnagwanga in this undated picture taken during the struggle for liberation in Zimbabwe. [Courtesy] For decades, Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe ...

From the moment it began -- with an army spokesman in military fatigues sitting at a TV desk insisting that he was not announcing a military takeover -- Zimbabwe's political crisis did not play out ...

Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa back from South Africa to take charge of Zimbabwe Government. The Vice-president who had previously been dismissed by President Mugabe was named leader of the ruling ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa acted to consolidate his hold on power with Tuesday's dismissal of a senior general, political analysts say, amid growing fears of a possible ...

Too often developments in one country are seen in isolation. In southern Africa events in one affect others in the region. Robert Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe is over. But the country’s road to democracy ...

After a global lull, coups are back. But this new wave of coups—concentrated mostly in Africa—are more sophisticated than past, often brutish, power grabs. Coup makers now frequently use softer, ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's National Security Council (NSC) in a maiden news conference on Wednesday accused allies of the late former leader Robert Mugabe and some opposition officials of peddling ...

The Zimbabwe Defence Forces toppled then President Robert Mugabe in November, 2017, in a defacto military coup claiming that it was removing corrupt "elements" surrounding the president. Some ...

*When U.S. President Barack Obama left office and President Trump succeeded, I felt Africa would miss him and that is stating the obvious. Obama’s government and that of his predecessors had curtailed ...

WHEN former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda last October warned of a "bedroom coup" brewing in Zanu PF ahead of the party's acrimonious December congress, his remarks could have simply been ...

(Adds election commission details, journalists in court) By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE, April 10 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition accused President Robert Mugabe on Thursday of carrying out a de facto ...

The more President Mnangagwa’s government fails to engage democratically with its own citizens, the more it will negate any prospect of re-engagement with the West.