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Exclusive: footage shows young elephants being captured in Zimbabwe for Chinese zoos
The Guardian has been given exclusive footage which shows the capture of young, wild elephants in Zimbabwe in preparation, it is believed, for their legal sale to Chinese zoos. In the early morning of 8 August, five elephants were caught in Hwange national park by officials at Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks).
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Mugabe named goodwill ambassador by WHO
The World Health Organisation head praises Zimbabwe's public health policy, in a controversial move.
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Zimbabwe's record-breaking Bitcoin binge
The most expensive bitcoin in the world are flying off virtual shelves in Zimbabwe. The price of the digital currency has soared beyond $10,000 over the past week on Harare-based trading platform Golix, almost double the rates on major international exchanges. "The price has been high for some time and it keeps going up," says Golix trade coordinator Yeukai Kusangaya. She expects soaring demand to drive the price even higher.
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Zimbabwe police charge U.S. citizen with anti-government plot
A U.S. citizen was charged on Friday with attempting to overthrow the Zimbabwean government, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in jail, after police earlier accused her of insulting 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe.
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Zimbabwe’s Military, in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of Mugabe
President Robert G. Mugabe was in custody, military officials said, adding that they would be “targeting criminals around him” as “the situation in our country has moved to another level.”
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Zimbabwe exchanges now trade Bitcoin even higher due to the coup
The cryptocurrency exchanges of Zimbabwe traded Bitcoin higher than in other parts of the world even before recent events regarding the political status of Robert Mugabe, 93-year-old dictator, leader of Zimbabwe since 1987.
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Mugabe: Between the wife and the loyal lieutenant
Robert Mugabe made the wrong choice that cost him the presidency. But this could turn for the better for Zimbabwe. By Alex Magaisa.
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Mugabe held after military seize control of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe is likely to be forced to hand power to his sacked vice president in a few weeks to make today's coup appear legal, experts have claimed. The 93-year-old's grip on the country appears over after he was detained in his own home when the military seized control in what it described as a 'bloodless correction' overnight.
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Trump admin to reverse ban on elephant trophies from Africa
The Trump administration plans to allow hunters to import trophies of elephants they killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the United States, reversing a ban put in place by the Obama administration in 2014, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official confirmed to ABC News today. Even though elephants are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, a provision in the act allows the government to give permits to import these trophies if there is evidence that the hunting actually benefits conservation for that species.
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe, coup chief meet with smiles and handshakes
A smiling President Robert Mugabe was pictured shaking hands with Zimbabwe's military chief a day after the army seized power, throwing confusion over predictions that the 93-year-old's nearly four-decade rule had come to an end.
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Mugabe refuses to quit as Zimbabweans march for his ouster
Thousands took to the streets of Harare on Saturday to demand the resignation of Robert Mugabe, in what could be the political end for the 93-year-old leader.
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The military coup in Zimbabwe, explained
Why the Zimbabwe coup is not a revolution. On November 14th 2017, Zimbabwe military troops drove tanks into the capital city, Harare. They patrolled the streets, blocked access to government buildings, and took over the state television station to insist…. This is not a military takeover of government. Once praised as a war hero, Robert Mugabe helped Zimbabwe win independence from Great Britain in 1980. He became president under Zimbabwe’s new constitution with the support of the people. But soon, he digressed into a repressive dictator.
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe has passed the deadline for willingly leaving office — and now he must be impeached
Longtime President Robert Mugabe ignored a midday deadline set by the ruling party to step down or face impeachment proceedings, while Zimbabweans stunned by his lack of resignation during a national address vowed more protests to make him leave. "Arrogant Mugabe disregards Zanu PF," one newspaper headline said. Opposition activists and the influential liberation war veterans association announced more demonstrations to pressure the 93-year-old Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state, to step down after 37 year in power.
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Zimbabwe's President Mugabe resigns
The end of Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule sparks wild celebrations in the streets.
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Crazy ‘Mugabe’ quotes
Kenyans are good runners because corruption is always chasing them
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has just resigned
Zimbabwe’s embattled President Robert Mugabe abruptly resigned Tuesday, bringing a potentially peaceful end to a growing political crisis that had raised fears of a military crackdown or other violence. Mugabe’s resignation was announced by the speaker of the country’s parliament, Jacob Mudenda. The BBC reported that Mugabe, 93, released a letter saying he’d made the decision to avoid further unrest and pave the way for a smoother transition of power in the country he’d ruled singlehandedly since it gained its independence in 1980.
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Zimbabwe court says military takeover was legal
A Zimbabwe High Court has ruled that the military takeover that led to Robert Mugabe's ousting was legal, raising immediate concerns about judicial independence under the country's new administration. Army chiefs put military vehicles on the streets of Harare and placed veteran leader Mugabe, 93, under house arrest, before he resigned on Tuesday.
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Zimbabwe: Five lessons from Uncle Bob
What Robert Mugabe’s long and eventful life can teach us. By Elsie Eyakuze.
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Will Emmerson Mnangagwa be better than Robert Mugabe?
He will surely be a less awful steward of the economy. But he is hardly a democrat
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White farmer gets land back under Zimbabwe's new leader
A white Zimbabwean farmer evicted by the government of Robert Mugabe has returned to a hero's welcome as the first to get his land back under the new president, in a sign of reform on an issue that had hastened the country's international isolation. With a military escort, Robert Smart made his way into Lesbury farm about 124 miles east of the capital, Harare, on Thursday to cheers and song by dozens of workers and community members.
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