Robert Mugabe

Mugabe -Villain or Hero?

Jasmine Dotiwala | Posted 12.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Jasmine Dotiwala

There are always 3 sides to every story though, one side, the other side and the truth.

'Friendly And Open Manner'

PA | Posted 22.03.2013 | UK

Lady Thatcher's 1982 private papers include a number of brief mentions of figures who would go on to play a significant role in public and political l...

Lovely To Meet You

Posted 19.03.2013 | UK

The wife of one of Europe's most powerful politicians has been pictured shaking hands and smiling with Zimbabwe leader, Robert Mugabe. Geertrui Win...

The Colourful Quotes Of Hugo Chavez

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK

Breast implants, the Falkland Islands and how capitalism may have ended life on Mars. The late Hugo Chavez had an opinion on it all. From describi...

Mugabe Tucks Into Ice Cream As Country Starves In Lavish Birthday Celebrations

Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.03.2013 | UK

Robert Mugabe feasted on ice cream at his extravagant £400,000 birthday party on Sunday in a lavish display of wealth and power that showed his detra...

Dictators as Bond Villains

John McMenamin | Posted 29.03.2013 | UK Comedy
John McMenamin

I thought I'd have a go at putting together a rogues gallery which puts reigning dictators in the roles of Bond villains. I've chosen ones who are unlikely to have me killed... I hope. Anyway, here's what a bit of pixel trickery resulted in.

Zimbabwean MPs Raise AIDS Awareness By Getting Circumcised

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 22.08.2012 | UK

A team of Zimbabwean MPs are getting circumcised as part of a campaign to reduce AIDS and HIV cases. A small makeshift clinic has been set up in H...

Is This The New Face Of Tourism?

The Guardian | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK

Improbable as it seems, Robert Mugabe, a man widely accused of ethnic cleansing, rigging elections, terrorising opposition, controlling media and pres...

Mugabe Reveals Chelsea Affinity

The Huffington Post UK | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Sport

Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, has revealed he is a supporter of Champions League winners Chelsea. The tyrant, 88, admitted his allegiance w...

Mugabe Ill Health Rumours Slammed As 'Hogwash'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK

Rumours that Robert Mugabe is "close to death" after being rushed to a hospital in Singapore have been denied by a Zimbabwean government official. ...

'I Have Beaten Jesus Christ'

Posted 21.02.2012 | UK

Robert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwe, dismissed persistent rumours that he is dying of cancer by comparing himself to Jesus Christ during an interview on...

Salmond In Hot Water After Comparing BBC Boss To Nazi

PA | Posted 05.02.2012 | UK Politics

Opposition leaders have called for Alex Salmond to apologise after he used a term linked to officials in Nazi Germany to describe a BBC adviser. Sc...

Fred Goodwin Joins Robert Mugabe, Lester Piggott And Nicolae Ceausescu After Being Stripped of Knighthood

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK

The inglorious stripping of Fred Goodwin’s knighthood today puts the former RBS boss in the company of a colourful list of characters who have exper...

James Murdoch - A Matter Of Appearance

Simon Napier-Bell | Posted 29.01.2012 | UK Entertainment
Simon Napier-Bell

Since James Murdoch's appearance before that parliamentary committee a couple of weeks ago, amongst all the talk about his evasive manner, his shortcomings as the head of a big corporation, and whether he might or might not have been telling the truth, there's been one thing noticeably missing.

Is This Video Of Gaddafi Blasting Mugabe In the Face With A Water Pistol Bad Taste?

Huffington Post UK | Huffington Post Reporter | Posted 24.11.2011 | UK

It has been a bad year for dictators and now South African fast food chicken restaurant Nando's has turned the fall of regimes to its advantage. It...

Richard Branson Denies Bankrolling Plot To Overthrow Robert Mugabe

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

Sir Richard Branson has denied that he attempted to force the overthrow of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe by bankrolling a meeting of African elde...

Archbishop Gives Mugabe Abuses File

PA | Posted 10.12.2011 | UK

The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe with a dossier of abuses Anglicans have suffered in his country. Dr Row...

Rowan Williams Pushing For Meeting With Mugabe

PA | Posted 07.11.2011 | UK

The Archbishop of Canterbury is hoping to have face to face discussions with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe next month amid the violent persecution of Angl...

Grandad and the African St Francis

Charli Morgan | Posted 05.11.2011 | UK
Charli Morgan

My grandad, Donald Burt was a massive wow, with red wine, paint and stories bulging in his ample belly... along with heroic amounts of pickled onions and cheese. He sadly passed away last year, but has left enough incredible tales to wear a quill down to a molten stem.