Robert Mugabe News
Police motorbikes lined up outside the Singapore Casket, a funeral parlour where Mugabe`s body was being held, in a sign that a dignitary would soon be departing. Mugabe`s body was expected to arrive in Zimbabwe on Wednesday at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), a family member told Reuters.
The family of Zimbabwe founder Robert Mugabe is pushing back against the government`s plan to bury him at the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare and wants him to be buried in his home village instead, three relatives told Reuters.
Robert Mugabe had dominated Zimbabwean politics for almost four decades from independence in 1980 until he was removed by his own army in a November 2017 coup.
Zimbabwe`s former president Robert Mugabe has died aged 95, the country`s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on his official Twitter account.
One person was shot dead by Zimbabwean soldiers near a bus rank in central Harare, witnesses told a Reuters photographer.
The election will see 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, face 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, a lawyer, and pastor who is vying to become Zimbabwe`s youngest head of state.
Zimbabwe`s former president Robert Mugabe was ousted by a "military coup" that forced his resignation, former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo said in an interview with the BBC broadcast on Thursday.
President Mnangagwa made Major-General Sibusiso Moyo foreign minister and handed Air Marshal Perrance Shiri the sensitive land portfolio.
Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in as Zimbabwe's president on Friday, marking the final chapter of a political drama that toppled his predecessor Robert Mugabe after a military takeover.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, will be sworn in as President at an inauguration ceremony on Friday.
Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for nearly 37 years.
Mugabe recently resigned as Zimbabwe President.
Mugabe has been accused of ordering a string of massacres in the early to mid-1980s.
Zimbabwe`s former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as president on Friday.
Zimbabweans waited today to discover when their new leader would be appointed after president Robert Mugabe's resignation brought a sudden end to a 37-year reign of authoritarian rule.
Robert Mugabe, who resigned as Zimbabwe`s president on Tuesday, was the last living African head of state to have fought for his country`s independence before becoming its leader.
Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe`s president on Tuesday, shortly after parliament began an impeachment process to end his nearly four decades of rule.
Zimbabwe`s former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking led to last week`s Army takeover, on Tuesday urged President Robert Mugabe to resign immediately.
Ousted deputy president Emmerson Mnangagwa fled Zimbabwe shortly being sacked by Mugabe in November.
Zimbabwe`s economic output has halved since 2000 when many white-owned farms were seized, leaving the key agricultural sector in ruins.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was on Sunday facing the end of his 37-year rule.
Tens of thousands of overjoyed protesters flooded Zimbabwe`s streets Saturday celebrating the crumbling of President Robert Mugabe`s ruthless regime.
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