Robert Mugabe has led Zimbabwe since 1980, but he underestimated his nation’s anger over his son’s unrestrained spending and his wife’s political ambitions.
The move shakes up the country’s political calculus and its economy, which has been plagued by corruption.
The singer Sherine Abdel-Wahab has been charged with incitement and harming the public interest after joking about a waterborne disease transmitted by parasitic worms.
Robert Mugabe’s wife helped oust two successive vice presidents who rivaled her as potential successors to her ailing husband.
Here’s a look at the Zimbabwe leader’s public life over the past half century.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old president who has ruled for almost four decades, has been put under house arrest by the military.
The nearly 40-year reign of one of Africa’s last liberation leaders appeared to be coming to a close as tanks were deployed in the streets of the capital.
Over 20 years, hundreds of performers have joined the show in cities around the globe. These are some of their stories — laced with hope, tragedy, homesickness and triumph.
The military has taken President Robert Mugabe into custody, but says it only plans on “targeting criminals” around the 93-year-old leader.
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