Robert Mugabe

‘We receive texts and messages that we are in danger and our children will be raped’

The one-time ‘bread basket of Africa’ faces a severe crisis in wake of cyclone and drought

Former Zimbabwean leader told relatives he did not want ‘tormentors’ to arrange burial

Zanu-PF-led government urged to adopt a human rights approach to policing demonstrations

Former president to be interred in National Heroes Acre mausoleum in about 30 days

Zimbabweans torn in mourning for leader who ended colonial rule but ruined economy

Public not sure when his body would be returned or when he would be buried

Guerrilla leader led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980 and ruled with an iron fist

President once hailed as beacon of African liberation whose rule bankrupted country

Little change one year on from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inauguration

Opposition leader says party called off demonstration to avoid bloodshed

Aid target rises to €331m as humanitarian disaster feared in southern African country

Robert Mugabe’s agrarian policy saw up to 4,000 farmers removed from their land

The evictions were carried out under former president Mugabe’s land reform programme

Zimbabwe’s president says search has begun for lawyers, doctors and nurses who assisted civilians during protests over the economy

Opposition in hiding after arbitrary arrests, beatings and rapes by police and military