Robert Mugabe’s political life in pictures
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s leader, is facing an unprecedented challenge from senior military figures who are thought to oppose his wife’s political ambitions. The military has seized control of the country and is holding Mr Mugabe in what it says is a ”safe” location
Mr Mugabe with George Silundika of the African National Congress and Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People Union, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1960s
The leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union arrives for a conference about the future of Rhodesia in Geneva and jokingly puts up his fists as he encounters journalists in November 1974
Mr Nkomo, left, and Mr Mugabe sign the Rhodesia ceasefire accord in December 1979 as part of the Lancaster House agreement in which Britain formally recognised the republic of Zimbabwe
President Canaan Banana, right, and Mr Mugabe at an independence ceremony in Salisbury in April 1980
Mr Mugabe with Sally, his Ghanaian wife, in the rose garden of their bungalow in Salisbury in 1980 when he was working to form a government. The city was renamed Harare in 1982
Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister, greets Mr Mugabe at 10 Downing Street in May 1980
Muammer Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, meets Mr Mugabe for a summit of the Organisation of African Unity in Tripoli in August 1982
Mr Mugabe outside offices of the African National Congress in Harare that were bombed by South African special forces in May 1986
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with Mr Mugabe before the Zimbabwean leader reviewed a guard of honour in London in May 1994
President Bill Clinton talks to Mr Mugabe at the White House after a meeting in May 1995
Nelson Mandela, left, is welcomed by Mr Mugabe on a state visit to Harare in May 1997
Tony Blair, UK prime minister, chats with Mr Mugabe at the Commonwealth Summit in Edinburgh in 1997
War veterans rename Parklands Farm, near Harare, after Josiah Tongogara, a liberation war hero, in March 2000 after Mr Mugabe introduced land reforms that led to invasions of white-owned properties
Dup Muller, a farmer in Headlands, east of Harare, surveys damage to his home at the hands of war veterans in August 2002
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, addresses an election rally in Chitungwiza in February 2002
Mr Mugabe at a rally in Harare in June 2008 on the eve of Zimbabwe’s election
Mr Mugabe, left, exchanges documents with Mr Tsvangirai after signing a power-charing deal in Harare in September 2008. King Mswati of Swaziland is looking on
Three loaves of bread cost $Z50m at a street market in Harare in 2008, with inflation running above 100,000 per cent
Mr Mugabe kisses Grace, his wife and first lady, during the 37th Independence Day celebrations in Harare in April this year
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