Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe summoned its US ambassador on Monday over remarks by a senior American official accusing the southern African country of stirring anti-racism protests over the death of George Floyd, the government said. In a Sunday interview with ABC news, US national security advisor Robert O’Brien referred to Zimbabwe and China …
Read More »Mugabe died of cancer, says Zimbabwe media
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s founding president Robert Mugabe had “advanced cancer” when he died in hospital in Singapore on September 6, the state-owned newspaper reported on Monday. The former guerilla leader, who died aged 95, came to power at the end of white minority rule in 1980 and …
Read More »Mugabe to be buried in a month at Zimbabwe’s ‘heroes’ monument
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe’s family and the government on Friday said he would be buried in about a month after they agreed to entomb him at a monument for national heroes in Harare. Mugabe died in Singapore last week aged 95, leaving Zimbabweans divided over …
Read More »Mugabe’s family agree to burial at ‘heroes’ monument
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | The family of former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe have agreed to bury him at a monument for national heroes in Harare, the family said on Friday, though the date for the ceremony remained unclear. Mugabe died in Singapore last week aged 95, leaving Zimbabweans deeply divided …
Read More »Confusion as Mugabe’s family, government squabble over burial site
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe ex-president Robert Mugabe’s family and the government squabbled over his burial on Thursday, with the place — and even its date — still unclear after relatives snubbed a plan for him to be entombed at a national monument. Mugabe died in Singapore last week …
Read More »Mugabe’s body heads back to divided Zimbabwe for burial
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | The body of Zimbabwe’s ex-president, Robert Mugabe, was flown out of Singapore Wednesday, heading home for burial in a country divided over the legacy of a former liberation hero whose 37-year rule was marked by repression and economic ruin. Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who swept to …
Read More »Mugabe still in Singapore hospital since April: president
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s ex-leader Robert Mugabe remains hopsitalised in Singapore where he has been receiving medical care for four months, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday. Mnangagwa said in a statement that the 95-year-old Mugabe had been receiving medical care for an undisclosed ailment, and was …
Read More »Zimbabwe ends foreign currency use as inflation spirals
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe announced on Monday that it would abandon the use of foreign currencies which replaced the local dollar that was swiped out by hyperinflation ten years ago. The crisis-hit country is facing another bout of sharply rising prices, with official inflation now at nearly 100 per …
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