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Robert Mugabe, Former President of Zimbabwe, Dead at 95
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the former Zimbabwean president whose promising emergence eventually steered his country into economic collapse, has died at the age of 95. The Washington Post reports that Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s current president, announced Mugabe’s passing on Twitter: “It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father…
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Speculation Centers on Value of Successful Festival ‘Washington Week’ Says It Follows Ifill on Diversity Black Woman Promoted at Wall Street Journal N.Y. Times Defends Profile of American Neo-Nazi Tabloids Aside, British Take Markle’s Race in Stride No Escaping Devastation for Puerto Rico’s Reporters Reporter Spoke to Progressives Without Paper’s OK Star Tribune Says Franken’s…
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s Longtime President, Resigns After 37 Years
For the first time in 37 years, Zimbabwe will have a new president because Robert Mugabe has resigned, saying that his decision was voluntary and being done to create a smooth transition of power. The 93-year-old Mugabe’s resignation came as a shock to many despite the fact that calls for him to step down had…
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Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Gives Robert Mugabe the Boot, but the 93-Year-Old Is ‘Holding On’ Like Jeffrey Osborne
Robert Mugabe appears to be doing like that Jeffrey Osborne song once again made famous by the New Edition biopic on BET—that is, “holding on”—despite the fact that members of his own party gave the 93-year-old president of Zimbabwe about a day to resign or be forced out. Members of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, a party…
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Thousands of Zimbabweans Take to the Streets, Telling Robert Mugabe and ‘Gucci Grace’ to Kick Rocks
When Bob Marley sang “I’n’I a-liberate Zimbabwe” in 1979, he was praising the efforts of freedom fighters like Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean revolutionary who was once jailed for fighting against colonial British rule. Some 30-plus years later, however, Mugabe, for all intents and purposes, has been ousted by his military—and the people—who took to the…
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Issa Coup but Not Really: How Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe Happened to Find Himself Under ‘House Arrest’
In a surprise military takeover that is being described as not a coup, Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, has been confined to his home since the country’s military declared that it had taken over the country to target the “criminals” inside the Mugabe regime. Because this ongoing drama hasn’t been at the forefront of regular, white-people…
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The Faces of the Zimbabwean Delegation Listening to Trump Speak Are the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is a terrible person. He’s stolen elections, he’s bankrupted the country’s economy, he’s murdered citizens and his wife beats models with extension cords (???), and the world will be a better place when he’s dead. (Speaking of which, he’s 93 years old, but don’t allow that to give you hope, because…