The Latest Breaking News from Robert Mugabe

Nujoma was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.

Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter sought to make government ‘competent and compassionate’.

Munya Chawawa pits his trademark raps and skits against interviews with a man denounced as ‘human scum’ – and a defector who ended up in a detention centre for decades. What emerges, against the odds, is witty and very well done

The ‘fastest man on the internet’ has a new show about North Korea. He talks brainwashing, how we’re all suffering from apocalypse anxiety – and why the west is the real ‘big bad wolf’

Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck

At independence, most African states had two legislative chambers – a lower and upper chamber – in their parliament. African leaders saw that as a colonial legacy and as inefficient, so most states removed the upper chambers. Before 1990, only two states kept these bicameral parliaments: Liberia and Nigeria.

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.

President Mnangagwa launched initiative to foster healing over 1980s killings, but survivor communities are sceptical.

Have sanctions ever achieved much in Zimbabwe, and how do they affect the country’s economy?