Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and political rival Morgan Tsvangirai failed to reach an agreement Tuesday over new fissures in their power-sharing deal signed last month, despite hours of ...

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Africa perhaps has the oldest legion of political leaders in the world, who are not monarchs, with the unenviable record of ...

Elderly leaders in Africa and around the world are holding on to power. Democratic states should be wary about the impact of entrenched rule.

Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party plans to amend the constitution to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term by two years to ...

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The Zimbabwe ruling party's backing of a term extension for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which requires a change to the ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan showed she is cut from the same cloth as her male counterparts around the continent ...