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On a wing and a prayer: Zimbabwe’s main airport is operating without a radar
In a video, a lawmaker said planes were landing at Zimbabwe's main international airport without any radar systems to guide air traffic controllers.
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Grace Mugabe challenges Zimbabwe order to exhume husband's body
Robert Mugabe was buried in his rural home village of Kutama, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) west of the capital Harare, in September 2019 after weeks of wrangling over his final resting place.
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Zimbabwe court says Mugabe can be reburied
A Zimbabwe court on Friday sided with traditional chiefs seeking to exhume the remains of ex-president Robert Mugabe from his home village and move them to the capital, going against the family's wishes.
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Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi massacre victims to be compensated
From 1983, Robert Mugabe deployed a North Korean-trained military unit to crack down on a revolt in the southwestern region of Matabeleland in newly independent Zimbabwe, say rights groups.
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Echoes of Mugabe as Zimbabwe president entrenches power
Critics see little difference between Emmerson Mnangagwa - Robert Mugabe's former deputy - and his ex-boss, accusing him of seeking to create a one-party state under the ruling Zanu-PF.
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Robert Mugabe's widow told to pay for 'improper burial' in livestock
Grace Mugabe is accused of burying her husband in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, some 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare, while he was supposed to be buried in a place chosen by his mother or immediate family.
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Grace Mugabe summoned by chief to face charges of inappropriately burying Robert
According to 'The Voice of Zimbabwe,' Chief Zvimba wants Mugabe to exhume her late husband's body and rebury it at a gravesite where his mother, bona, was laid to rest.
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Holding on to power: Africa's longest-serving leaders
Here are some of Africa's other longest-serving leaders, some of whom change the constitution, crush the opposition and use fear and violence to maintain their grip on power.
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Bitter anniversary in Zimbabwe a year after Mugabe died
Robert Mugabe died on 6 September last year, aged 95 in a Singapore hospital, two years after he was forced to resign in 2017, and after 37 years in power.
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Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land
Last month, Zimbabwe agreed to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to local white farmers whose land was forcibly taken by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.
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Zimbabwe authorities seize Mugabe nephew's farm
In an affidavit, businessman Robert Zhuwao, the son of the late Robert Mugabe's younger sister Sabina, protested that the land ministry revoked his title to the 233-hectare "on the basis of a false allegation."
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EWN's Pictures of 2019
Take a look back at 2019 as captured through the lenses of EWN's photojournalists.
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High profile deaths in 2019
A look at the high profile deaths in 2019.
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Lawyer says establishing Mugabe's assets will take a long time
The government-owned 'Herald' newspaper said Robert Mugabe’s daughter Bona Chikowore wrote in October, the month after her father’s death, to the High Court seeking to register the estate.
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Mugabe left behind $10m, several properties but no beneficiaries: media
State media said the estate was registered by Mugabe’s eldest daughter Bona Chikore in October, a month after her father died.
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JERRY MATEBESI: Former President Mugabe was 90% correct and 10% wrong
The legacy of former Zimbabwe President Mugabe remains a contested terrain and ought to be understood within the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism, writes Jerry Matebesi.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: We can’t airbrush Zuma’s failures from history
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says all those trying to cast former President Jacob Zuma as a hero should just stop.
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Zim govt denies reports saying Zanu-PF plans to take over Mugabe's properties
On Monday, reports emerged that the former president's Harare mansion could be turned into a museum.
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Reinforced grave, tamper-proof casket: battle for Mugabe's corpse
Robert Mugabe, who died aged 95 at a Singapore hospital on 6 September, was laid to rest 22 days later in a concrete cast grave in the courtyard of his rural Kutama home, 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare.
