Mugabe first rose to power as the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) a guerrilla movement against white-minority rule in Rhodesia, the former British colony now known as Zimbabwe.

The Reign of Robert Mugabe

The Zimbabwean President has presided over the economic and social collapse of one of Africa's most prosperous nations

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