JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — With President Robert Mugabe’s options dwindling in the wake of the Zimbabwe elections, a curtain seems to be falling on a long and painful era in modern African history — ...

Mugabe, who was declared a "national hero," ruled Zimbabwe for almost three decades and was battling ill health since his ...

Thirty-seven years after he brought independence to the last outpost of the British Empire in Africa, Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is no more. Mugabe’s resignation, announced in Harare on Tuesday, ...

Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and has written a number of books about the country and Robert Mugabe's regime. Rachel Martin asks him what he hopes is next for his country. Thirty-seven ...

Thirty-seven years ago, Robert Mugabe was feted as a titan who had won Africa's last great war against colonialism. Today, in the twilight of his life, Mugabe finds himself loathed by millions of his ...

There are few more strife-torn countries than Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. Inflation has soared past 100,000%; as many as 8 in 10 are unemployed; and in the lead-up to a June 27 runoff election, ...

Thirty-seven years ago - 37 years - the schoolteacher turned revolutionary took over a newly independent state. MARTIN: No longer would this be a British colony called Rhodesia, and no longer would it ...