After a global lull, coups are back. But this new wave of coups—concentrated mostly in Africa—are more sophisticated than past, often brutish, power grabs. Coup makers now frequently use softer, ...

In the bush: President Mugabe, General Tongo and Emmerson Mnagwanga in this undated picture taken during the struggle for liberation in Zimbabwe. [Courtesy] For decades, Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe ...

*When U.S. President Barack Obama left office and President Trump succeeded, I felt Africa would miss him and that is stating the obvious. Obama’s government and that of his predecessors had curtailed ...

From the moment it began -- with an army spokesman in military fatigues sitting at a TV desk insisting that he was not announcing a military takeover -- Zimbabwe's political crisis did not play out ...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives for the presentation of the 2020 National Budget at Parliament Building in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 14, 2019. [Photo:Reuters] Zimbabwe’s National ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa acted to consolidate his hold on power with Tuesday's dismissal of a senior general, political analysts say, amid growing fears of a possible ...

Too often developments in one country are seen in isolation. In southern Africa events in one affect others in the region. Robert Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe is over. But the country’s road to democracy ...

The Zimbabwe Defence Forces toppled then President Robert Mugabe in November, 2017, in a defacto military coup claiming that it was removing corrupt "elements" surrounding the president. Some ...

WHEN former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda last October warned of a "bedroom coup" brewing in Zanu PF ahead of the party's acrimonious December congress, his remarks could have simply been ...

Stephanie of the United States Department's lwe Bureau of African Affairs tells a U.S Congressional hearing Tuesday on the future of Zimbabwe that her country does not regard the military intervention ...

(Adds election commission details, journalists in court) By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE, April 10 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition accused President Robert Mugabe on Thursday of carrying out a de facto ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's National Security Council (NSC) in a maiden news conference on Wednesday accused allies of the late former leader Robert Mugabe and some opposition officials of peddling ...