President Carter’s interest in southern Africa was crucial to keeping the peace.
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Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and under appreciated part of his legacy
Robert Mugabe, former President of Zimbabwe, addressing media in Harare, in July 2018.
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Robert Mugabe’s years of playing one group off against the other to favour himself finally wore too thin in 2017.
Robert Mugabe during his swearing-in ceremony in Harare, 2008. The former Zimbabwean president has died aged 95.
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Where should we place Mugabe among the pantheon of African nationalists who led their countries to independence?
Many Zimbabweans have turned to hawking to keep the wolf from the door as the economic crisis in the country deepens.
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It’s time for a new approach as it becomes increasingly clear that protests won’t topple the Zanu-PF government.
US President Donald Trump stamped his inaugural speech with the promise of ‘America First’ – a slogan with an ominous past.
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Rhodesia’s white supremacists appealed to the white electorate by taking a stand against African liberation. Similarly, Donald Trump appealed to white Americans who feel overwhelmed by globalisation.