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 ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex -guerrilla chief who took power after independence from white minority rule in 1980 and presided over a country whose early promise ...

The family of Zimbabwe's former strongman Robert Mugabe and government officials appear at odds about where the late leader will be buried. The government had earlier stated that Mugabe, who died last ...

HARARE (Reuters) - When he came to power, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero in a nation that had endured nearly a century of white colonial rule. Nearly four decades ...

Scores of Zimbabweans gathered Wednesday to pay their respects to former President Robert Mugabe whose body was repatriated from Singapore. Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for close to 40 ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex -guerrilla chief who took power after independence from white minority rule in 1980 and presided over a country whose early ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The burial of Zimbabwe’s founding president, President Robert Mugabe, will be delayed for a month until a special site can be built at the national Heroes’ Acre monument, a family ...

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power when the African country shook off white minority rule and presided for decades while economic turmoil and human rights ...

What with the world economy in the throes of a precipitous slowdown and even Africa’s crisis agenda now dominated by the upheavals in eastern Congo and the exploits of Somalia’s pirates, it’s easy to ...

Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe was buried Saturday in his home town of Kutama in the Zvimba district after three weeks of argument between the government and his family over his final ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe founding leader Robert Mugabe made his final journey back to the country Wednesday, his body flown into the capital amid the contradictions of his long, controversial rule.